Attempting to find a band on Google with “Xenu” in its name led me to a myspace page of “Lord Xenu and the Thetans”. I would find it hard to believe from that page that they actually would be known by anybody though.
That’s right! In the poster you could read “Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon.” as one of the venues.
No. But now I have to find some music by them.
Maybe the clue is a bit obscure: the cabal I was talking about is fictional, and was part of the poems their manager was writing at the time. But the name is similar to the one you found.
This band originally named itself after a local brewery that sponsored them. When the sponsorship fell through, the band kept the same initials but took a new name based on a Slim Harpo song.
7 This band was originally named “Rainbow Butt Monkeys”
8 First called The Warlocks, their definitive name was picked out of a dictionary
9 Also called The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes, and finally they took the title from a book about the ‘secret sexual subculture of the early sixties’.
This band was named after a fictional character who evolved from unctuous, butt kissing law clerk to ruthless, villainous lawyer.
This band was named after a movie about a man who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes.
This band was named after a song on Bob Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” album (hint: they once recorded a song about Bob Dylan, written by one of Bob’s former lovers).
Gatopescado got #11 right- Uriah Heep was a phony, smarmy law clerk in Dickens’ David Copperfield.
And Smapti was right about Judas Priest- they took their name from Dylan’s “The Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest.” They also did a cover of Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rust,” a song she wrote about Dylan.