Snatch was the name of the London band formed by American ex-pats Judy
Nylon and Patti Palladin, who were both lodged in the capital by the mid
70s. Based in London’s Maida Vale, they both moved in the kind of avant-garde
and arty circles that brought them into contact with everyone from Roxy
Music to the Sex Pistols as well as a young Chrissie Hynde.
Their
first release “Stanley/IRT” came out 1 week before the Damned’s first
single in 1977, but couldn’t honestly be described as being instantly
recognisable punk. Their art sensibilities eschewed drums and instead of
fuzzed up electric’s featured a repetitive choppy chord sequence played
on an acoustic guitar, along with the pair’s trademark bratty and
slightly nasal vocal delivery.
Their second release “All I Want/When I’m Bored” took another year to hit the streets, delayed by their picky, and some would say overly protracted, search for a company who could produce the kind of special metallic sleeve they had in mind. Incredibly on its release the single sneaked in to number 57 on the charts.
A final single Shopping For Clothes surfaced in April 1980. In between
Patti featured on Chris Spedding's Hurt (1977) and The Electric Chairs'
Things Your Mother Never Told You. (1979) After Snatch Patti did a
lot of collaborative work with other artists working with among others
as Johnny Thunders and even The Flying Lizards on their Fourth Wall
album of 1981 where she wrote the lyrics and sang on 5 tracks before
becoming a gothic chanteuse notable on the Batcave scene of the early
'80's. Patti still writes and performs to this day. Nylon often collaborated with Welsh musician/producer John Cale. In 1974 she sang the song "The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy" on his album Fear. She subsequently performed with him at concerts and on other recordings, including his 1987 live album Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
