High praise has been forthcoming from the press for live shows. Their concerts are a "funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll featuring the bonsai guitar". A typical UOGB concert is a "genre bending array" of songs (with every member in turn taking up solo vocal duties) and instrumentals ranging from the Sex Pistols, Blur, Hawkwind, Grace Jones, Clean Bandit, Nirvana to Bach, Beethoven and Saint-Saëns’s rattling "Danse macabre". A “shopping trolley dash through genres” and musical history from classical music to punk, grunge, rock and roll, country to Spaghetti Western soundtracks and "some oddities that don't quite fit anywhere" .