Melody Maker (13th September 1986)
Steve Sutherland:
The Beastie Boys not so beastie after all? Seems so, though the last time this brat pack of NYHM rappers set foot on our shores, they managed to upset and outrage most of the nice record company and music press people it was worth outraging and upsetting. They smeared taramasalata over their guests at their highly hyped PA at the now defunct Embassy (a five-minute appearance, incidentally, which amounted to little more than a spirited effusion of four-letter words over a rampant beatbox), they talked alot about titties and crack and they made an awful mess of their hotel rooms, redecorating the Chelsea Holiday Inn with a variety of sarnies. Wild old stuff.