(c’82-84) Maxi Puch (vocal), Paul Bond (drums), John “Dirt” Donnellan (bass) and Chris “Kip” Keating (guitar).
Maxi Puch and the Macho Moped Men were a punk 4-piece from Aldershot. Their first demo cassette EP, titled “Drop Your Guts”, was positioned at No.15 by Sounds compilers in their Punk Chart for 3 July ’82. On 7 September ’82, punk returned to The Maltings, Farnham with a gig headlined by Black Easter supported by Mutant Babies, Disease, Maxi Puch and the Macho Moped Men, LongPig, and Zylch
On 31 May ’83, Puch and Black Easter supported Clone at 5’s Wine Bar, Aldershot. In the early 80’s, The Plague organized ‘The Sty’ rock / punk club nights the West End Centre, Aldershot. Puch appeared at The Sty held on 30 January ’84, along with The Plague and The Contaminated.
Bond moved to Devon in ’83 and the band continued as a trio. The three remaining members appeared at The Old Schoolhouse, Woking on 9 February ’84 with The Contaminated and Black Easter and Caird Hall, Camberley on 25 February ’84 with The Plague, Black Easter again, and Panzer Korps. The following month they were one of the local punk bands at the Aldershot Rock Weekend. Held at the West End Centre, the punk session held on the afternoon of 24 March ’84 saw The Plague, Black Easter, Panzer Korp, and Maxi Puch and the Macho Moped Men take to the stage. The band released the five track “Go With Noakes” demo in 1984, featuring instrumental “Pursuit” and pure punk “Order Of The Black”, listing all four members. There were rumors of inclusion in a nationally distributed punk / new wave compilation LP, but these do not appear to have come to fruition.
Maxi Puch and the Macho Moped Men seem to have faded away sometime in ’84 with the occasional mention online as people reminisce or discover a track. Keating, who’d did a stint with The Plague, would later be found in The F1-11s. On 9 and 10 January 2020, the bands “Order of the Black” was played on California based KaoticRadio’s “Punks not DEAD” (episode 98).
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