Snatch - Judy Nylon

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Snatch was Patti Palladin and Judy Nylon, two Americans who moved to the UK in 1974. They recorded a number of demos at Patti's flat in 1976 two of which IRT and Stanley were released as a single 6 months later in February 1977. Another single All I Want narrowly missed  the upper reaches of the charts in March 1978. A final single Shopping For Clothes surfaced in April 1980. 

Judy Nylon had already worked with John Cale, ex Velvet Underground, singing back up vocals on the song The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy. She and Patti also contributed to Chis Spedding's Hurt album in 1977. After their (Snatch's) collaboration with Eno on RAF, about the Baader Meinhof terrorists, she returned to New York and formed the Judy Nylon Band and did a European Tour. In 1982 she made an album with On-U sound producer Adrian Sherwood called Pal Judy which featured some of the songs of The Judy Nylon Band from back in 1978 such as Trial By Fire.

 Some quotes from Judy from Search & Destroy #8 1978

"I'm not interested in pink lipstick and mohair. I find the whole kind of thing that Blondie's selling to be particularly offensive."

"I'm very strongly anti-religion, and anti-family because I see that they're like a COMPLETE BONDAGE and one of the biggest walls to climb ... and the only way ... is to get away ... from whichever country you're in...

What SNATCH is about is ACCESS TO INFORMATION.. .AND PASSING THAT INFORMATION ON. ... The only reason I'm doing all this is to broaden my education, to keep learning....