‘I could never be seen as just a bass player again’: Miami Showband massacre survivor tells his story

‘I could never be seen as just a bass player again’: Miami Showband massacre survivor tells his story

Stephen Travers was living the dream as a pop star with the famed band. In his memoir, he tells how his life was derailed by the UVF attack that killed three of his bandmates

Last photo of the Miami Showband: From left, Brian McCoy, Fran O’Toole, Des Lee, Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty and (sitting in front) Ray Millar

While there was no hierarchy of atrocities during the Troubles, as Stephen Travers recognises more than most, the Miami Showband massacre just over 50 years ago, was one of the most notorious episodes of that dismal period.

Along with his bandmate Des Lee, Travers survived the slaughter on that night, but the scars, in his case both physical and psychological, lived on,