“The crowd’s attention was caught by the entrance of co-vocalist Barbie Goodrich in revealingly ruched cerise cocktail number; she voiced the introduction to the album opener “Joan Fan Club” and that was the cue for the arrival of Jim Skafish himself, tall, gangling, pasty-faced and with Plantaganet haircut providing a stark outline to features already blessed with a conversation piece where his nose ought to be. With green trousers flapping a half mast, he strutted about the stage with calculated Frankensteinian grace, using a mike up telephone as an ingenious prop and reeling back from time to time to pick out a few notes on a nearby keyboard. It only took the audience a few moments to figure out that unlike the rest of the show, this wasn’t going to be the nice safe pop music they’d payed 7 pounds to see, and they responded accordingly with volleys of half-filled beer cans lobbed at the stage....
...It wasn’t the music that provoked the reaction - the songs were musical enough, interesting and well-executed - it was the sheer oddness of Skafish himself they couldn’t come to terms with. He and his music were, simply, a threat to the passive enjoyment of a chart-orientated afternoon. After about seven numbers it was obvious that mass ignorance would triumph over artistic endeavor and the band was forced to retire early, Jim nursing a cut forehead from a direct hit, but the other musicians mercifully intact and undamaged.... Well, at least we liked them, and so too do the Police...”
- Tony Mitchell, Betty Page and Robbi Millar - “Mudflatta de Bowl” - Sounds - August 2, 1980
“The first pint of lager goes whipping past Barbie’s ear ten minutes into the set, and from that point it’s just a matter of how long they’ll stick it out....
The cans, initially intermittent, rapidly escalate into a full-scale assault....”
- Colin Irwin – “Caught in the act - Police / Sector 27 / Skafish / Squeeze / UB-40 / Milton Keynes Superbowl” - Melody Maker - August 2, 1980
“American act Skafish - the band and the man - who followed with their first UK appearance, succeeded in whipping up a definite response, even if it was probably the exact opposite of what they would have wished for. In short, they were mercilessly canned…. Skafish couldn’t do anything without rousing the crowd to ever-greater heights of contempt and impatience. A beer-can flew, aimed for the Skafish profile, to be followed by another, and then another....”
- Paul De Noyer - “Rocakatta De Bowl - Milton Keynes” - New Musical Express - August 2nd, 1980