Congratulations to Garry Boyle who has / have been nominated in Production Award: Sound Engineer of the Year sponsored by Paul McGeechan in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2026. Vote for Garry now! It’s going to be another great night at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Saturday 5th December in Paisley Arena, Lagoon Centre. Why not join us for a brilliant night of music and awards. Buy a ticket here.
We asked Garry of Garry the following questions.
Tell us about yourself
Garry Boyle is a Sound Designer, Recording Engineer/Mixer based at Slate Room Recording Studio, Edinburgh. Garry holds a Degree in Popular Music from Napier University, Edinburgh.
In the music world Garry has recorded / mixed a wide range of artists including the Elephant Sessions (Trad Album of the year winner 2022), Trio HLK with Dame Evelyn Glennie, Blue Rose Code, Broken Records, The Katet, Beats and Pieces Big Band, Matt Carmichael, Fergus McCreadie, Stanley Odd, Kirsten Adamson, Dean Owens, Katheryn Joseph and The Tinderbox Orchestra amongst many more.
Garry’s film and television credits include the BAFTA 2021 Winning Adam produced by the BBC and Hopskotch Films as Sound Designer and Score Composer, Netflix Epic Outlaw King as on-set playback engineer and PostProduction Pro Tools engineer and Disney Pixar’s Brave as Additional Score Engineer.
Garry also has numerous credits with the RSNO as Score Recordist / Pro Tools Engineer including Netflix The Dinosaurs, Life on our Planet, Sony’s Equaliser 3, Kevin Costner’s Horizon and Apple TVs Silo and Pluribus amongst others.
Garry’s sound design credits include GRIT: The Martyn Bennet Story, Janis Joplin: Full Tilt (for Pachamama Productions), Glasgow Girls, Beats Per Minute, What Girls are Made Of, The Stamping Ground and James IV: Fight of the Queen, Scots, Wallace (for RAW Material Arts), Adam, Interference (for National Theatre of Scotland), Totentanz and Arlington (for Shotput Theatre), The Singer (for Dundee Rep) and A Giant on the Bridge (for KT Producing).
Any particular career highlights?
In 2022 Garry was nomination for Best Sound Design at the 2022 UK Pantomime Awards
Stamping Ground won Best Music and Sound at the 2022 CATS Awards
Arlington won best Technical at the 2025 CATS Awards
The Singer was nominated for Best Design at the UK Theatre Awards in 2026
What are your plans for the future?
To continue in an upward trajectory over as long as I can.
Garry Social Media
Website: http://garryboyle.com/
Instagram: @garryslateroomstudio/
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The 2026 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards are on the 5th December 2026 in Paisley Arena, Lagoon Centre! You will be able to watch it live in person (buy a ticket here).
Hosted by Scottish personalities Alistair Heather and Mary Ann Kennedy, the night will welcome live performances from some of the brightest lights on the thriving trad scene today including Valtos, Gnoss, Sian, Fèis Phàislig, Spodo Komodo and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Rachel Groves and many more!
If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians why not become a friend of Hands Up for Trad. In addition to our high profile events like the Scots Trad Music Awards, we also deliver a less well known, education programme for young people from 8yrs right through to young adults at the start of their careers. Read more here.