Talk:Hot Snakes

Peel Session
The article states that "While on tour in the UK that fall, the band recorded several songs for BBC radio at legendary British DJ John Peel's recording studio. Their performance would be the last for Peel's program, as he died shortly afterwards.". However, according to the BBC itself, their session was followed by sessions from Yourcodenameis:Milo and Skimmer. -Ashley Pomeroy 23:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for noting that. The previous statement was based on news statements from the band and other news sources I had read, which were admittedly left unsourced because I couldn't recall where to find them. --IllaZilla 00:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Plural argument
Although it has taken me 20 years to get used to it, the correct grammar to describe a band would be 'Hot Snakes is' or 'Hot Snakes were', no matter whether the name of the band is plural or not, as a band is a singular object.

Though discussions still rage, the general consensus believe(s) (haha - sorry, couldn't resist it) that the above is correct. Like I said, I took me years to accept it, and accept that it sounded correct in my head, even though it doesn't sit right with most people, but there comes a time when you have to get used to it.

I'm not going to go around Wikipedia changing this for every page where band's names are plural, it's just Hot Snakes is pretty much my favourite band and I want their Wiki page to be perfect.

With regards to Rick's introduction on TDO, ('We're the Hot Snakes...') I feel Rick has artistic license to say whatever he wants. He probably said 'We're Hot Snakes' sometimes as well, though I don't have any evidence to back this up.

Apologies my actions nearly caused me to be reported for vandalism, just not an expert on this Wiki thing, you know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.4.85 (talk) 15:33, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Could you provide an example of this consensus? I've only seen the opposite. For example, in a sentence you would say "The Ramones were inducted in to the R&R hall of fame", or "The Red Hot Chili Peppers were awarded a Grammy" rather than "Ramones was inducted in to the R&R hall of fame" or "Red Hot Chili Peppers was awarded a Grammy". When you're using the band's name in a sentence, you generally follow the normal English rules of grammar and sentence structure in which names like Hot Snakes are considered count nouns rather than mass nouns. Like I said, the band may not have printed a "the" before their name, but it's implied by the fact that the name is a pluralized count noun and therefore you would use a "the" when writing it in a sentence followed by "were" rather than "was". There's precedent for this in a number of our featured articles, for example the Pixies, the Minutemen, and The Smashing Pumpkins. --IllaZilla (talk) 16:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * P.S. I should add that Hot Snakes are one of my favorite bands ever as well (next to RFTC), but even I would say that "the Hot Snakes are playing tonight" rather than "Hot Snakes is playing tonight". --IllaZilla (talk) 16:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Jericho sirens
Added in Jericho sirens at end of history. HeyHeyHayden (talk) 01:22, 21 June 2020 (UTC)