Book review: Surviving a massacre, and the lasting emotional toll it takes

Tipperary-born musician Stephen Travers was a member of the Miami Showband and had witnessed the brutal murders of three of his bandmates by the UVF in Co Down in 1975

Stephen Travers of the Miami Showband, attending the launch of Punks Listen at the Boole Library in UCC in 2022. File picture: David Keane

• The Bass Player: Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre
• Stephen Travers with Alexandra Orton and fore word by Yvonne Watterson 
• New Island Books, €17.95