The Bass Player (eBook)

Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre

Stephen Travers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
304 Seiten
Birlinn (Verlag)
978-1-78885-782-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Biography of the Year
Stephen 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. In the quiet aftermath, in a nearby field, Stephen awoke to his second life—as a survivor.
This second life led him down unexpected paths: as an author, composer, producer, and international speaker on peace and reconciliation. Over decades, he worked to support other survivors, challenge suspected state collusion, and seek justice in a landmark case against the British Ministry of Defence. Yet, despite these achievements, Stephen found himself drawn back to that field, revisiting the young man he had been moments before the massacre—searching for closure, a reunion with his former self.
Now, fifty years later, he has written The Bass Player, a love letter and eulogy for that first life. This book is both a deeply personal reckoning and a song for all those silenced by conflict, offering a path toward healing and, finally, peace.

Autor

Stephen Travers is an author, composer, producer and international speaker. In 2019, he co-founded Truth and Reconciliation Platform (TaRP) which provides a space for survivors of the Troubles, regardless of their social, religiousor political background, to speak about their experiences. He now lives in Cork, where he continues with his writing and music. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2025
• Co-Autor: Yvonne Watterson
• Vorwort: Alexandra Orton
• Zusatzinfo: 8pp colour plates
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Biography and Memoir • Brian McCoy • Dublin • Fran O'Toole • history of Ireland • history of the Troubles • Ireland • Music History • Northern Ireland • Republic of Ireland • state crime • State Sponsored killings • Stephen Travers • The Miami Showband • The Troubles • Tony Geraghty • true injustice • True stories • Victim stories
• ISBN-10: 1-78885-782-8 / 1788857828
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78885-782-6 / 9781788857826