Tearjerkers

The Tearjerkers are a five piece power pop band from Northern Ireland. Formed at the height of the punk rock boom in Ulster in the late 1970s, the band were composed of members from other Northern Irish groups namely Cobra, Midnight Cruiser and The Detonators.
The group consisted of 
*Paul Maxwell (lead vocal)
*Paul McIlwaine (guitars)
*Brian Rawson (guitars, backing vocals)
*Howard Ingram (bass guitar, backing vocal and occasional lead vocal)
*Nigel Hamilton (drums)
Their first single was issued on Terry Hooley's Belfast punk record label, Good Vibrations. Drummer/manager, Nigel Hamilton, along with his partner, Elizabeth McCann, organised a tour for the Good Vibrations label, which took other leading punk bands Rudi and The Outcasts on tour with the Tearjerkers all over Northern Ireland. The Tearjerkers were offered a recording contract with Phonogram's Back Door label, and issued their second single, "Murder Mystery" produced by John Astley (producer of The Who and Pete Townshend's then brother in law) and Phil Chapman. This single scored minor hit status in Belgium, France and Sweden.
==Links to Peel==
The Tearjerkers recorded two sessions for BBC Radio One's John Peel Show, and also received extensive airplay on Belfast's Downtown Radio and RTÉ's Dave Fanning show. The band's first Peel session was from a tape that the band recorded for local Downtown radio station, as the group was not able to go to Maida Vale to record their first session.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 29 November 1979
*Dressing Up / Murder Mystery / Comic Book Heroes
2. Recorded: 1980-03-12. First Broadcast: 25 March 1980. Repeated: 16 April 1980
*Comic Book Heroes / Is It Art? / Jenny Jenny / I'm Sorry
==Other Shows Played==
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*23 July 1979: Love Affair (single) Good Vibrations
*01 August 1979: Love Affair (7") Good Vibrations
*09 August 1979: Love Affair (single) Good Vibrations
*14 August 1979: Love Affair (single) Good Vibrations
*30 October 1979: Love Affair (7”) Good Vibrations
;1980
*06 February 1980: Murder Mystery (7") Back Door
*20 February 1980 (BFBS): Murder Mystery (7") Back Door
*26 February 1980: Murder Mystery (7") Back Door
;1987
*28 January 1987: Love Affair (7") Good Vibrations
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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