About

_{In the 50s and 60s, tearjerkers (also known as “teenage tragedy songs” in the US and “death discs” in the UK) haunted the charts as a micro-genre where misfortune-filled, morbid pop hymns ballads, involved love break-ups and the tragic deaths of loved ones, speaking to a youth fascinated by the progress of new motor-speed possibilities.}

tearjerker is a one-person junkshop of small-run DIY screen printed shirts. I focus on riot & tragedy song lyrics as a means to megaphonically wear these shared battles — from anti-authoritarianism and gender violences to break-ups and grief.

Based in Western Portugal, I deliver not only screen printed shirts I’ve designed with elements found in dusty album artworks, but also low-cost vinyl records with lesser-known music.
This is part of a “sampling” process that recontextualizes forgotten sounds, because the future of music also involves the silenced voices of the past.

A project from a lad with two decades of work booking gigs, doing visual arts around music and thrifting, and part of an ecosystem orbiting independent record labels, grassroots venues and skint musicians and listeners.