The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - Yvonne Watterson Publication Date:18/09/2025 Yet optimism is not reserved

Yet optimism is not reserved for times of extremity

the haunting begins

like the fish

Even murder

The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - Yvonne Watterson Publication Date:18/09/2025 Yet optimism is not reservedShortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Biography of the YearStephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with The Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when a Loyalist gang ambushed the band, murdering three of his friends in an attack that would become one of the darkest moments of The Troubles.