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 single 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, Judy returned to New York and formed the Judy Nylon Band followed by 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.