About Tacoma Radar

Scottish 4-piece Tacoma Radar formed in the late 1990s, and based themselves equally in Edinburgh and Glasgow. After releasing the singles Tuckahoe (1999) and Pilothouse (2001) on the Glasgow record label Andmoresound (which they shared with Camera Obscura, a band with whom they traded members) Tacoma Radar settled on the lineup of Kenny Anderson (drums), Richie Ferguson (guitar), Andy Hazel (bass, keyboards) and Jennifer Cosgrove (vocals, guitar and violin) for their album No One Waved Goodbye. Produced at Chem 19 by Andy Miller and mastered at Abbey Road by Nick Webb, this was released to favourable reviews in early 2003. Tacoma Radar opened for bands such as American Analog Set, Bright Eyes and Her Space Holiday, and garnered press like: "...compared to Galaxie 500, and yes, the shimmering feel and build-up of sounds could be deemed similar - but there's one vital difference - Tacoma Radar have got better songs." (www.jockrock.com). The lineup that recorded No One Waved Goodbye disbanded by the time the album was to be promoted, preventing them from reaching a wider audience. John Peel played some tracks and sales in Japan were promising, but by then Hazel had been replaced (to Yay Us then School of Emotional Engineering), and Cosgrove returned to study leaving the original core of Anderson and Ferguson to continue with the name and the sound.