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23/06/2024

HAPPY TELLY DAY! • I was out for lunch today, celebrating with BILL LLOYD. It was the arrival of my TELLY AWARD for his music video “Look Into It.” • The sign on our table reads 𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬. You know we took the right table. The celebration was all around! • If you haven't seen this award winning music video, take 3-minutes and check it out. Great music! And a very different kind of music video. See it here: https://youtu.be/n4kq6X2jY3M

23/05/2024

“LOOK INTO IT” ON THE BIG SCREEN! • I’ve just been informed that BILL LLOYD “Look Into It” will be screened at UNDER ST. MARKS THEATER, 94 St Marks Place, NYC, (right next to Fun City Tattoos) this Sunday, May 26th, as part of the NEW YORK MOVIE AWARDS, starting at 9:30pm (until 11pm). So, if you’re in NYC for the Memorial Day weekend and would like to experience this Neo Noir Graphic Novel Music Video at its big screen best, arrive early since seating is limited. And yes, they serve beer.

21/05/2024

MORE AWARDS!! • The total is now 4 awards for my BILL LLOYD “Look Into It” music video!! 𝟯 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 for 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 in 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀, 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 & 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲 as well as a 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 for 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰! • There are a few more film festivals to go, so we’ll see how lucky I get! • If you haven’t seen this international award winning music video, you can check it out at this link: https://youtu.be/n4kq6X2jY3M

16/04/2024

WAYBACK April 16, 1988 • 36 years ago today, I completed the music video FOSTER & LLOYD “Texas In 1880” (RCA Records). • While I was in an edit session at TNN, the phone rang and it was Foster & Lloyd calling me from the ACM awards in Los Angeles. They had spent all of their record label music video budget on "Crazy Over You.” They needed another video and asked me to make this video (which they personally funded) for $4,000. This was to be my first Nashville major record label music video. Since there wasn’t enough of a budget to shoot a full music video on 16mm film (the technical standard of the day), I thought that since the song title had a date of 1880, why not get a bunch of public domain rodeo footage (which is free) and intercut that with bits of F&L performance. To make it even cheaper, I shot on 16mm reversal black & white film. That’s the same film stock newsreels were shot, so it also intercut well with the archives. To make the new film look even more archival (and to save money), I transferred the film on the cheapest, nastiest system I could find, which happened to be at TNN. When completed, I came under budget by $4. When RCA Records saw the video, they liked it and bought it for $8,000. So, F&L got their money back and the profit went from splitting $4 with producer / partner, GREG CRUTCHER to splitting $4,004. Plus the music video was a hit! And for me, the beginning of many Nashville major label music videos. • This video Won the very first ADDY Award given to a music video. And it also won MUSIC ROW MAGAZINE’s 1989 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥.

director/camera/editor • STEVE BOYLE producer • GREG CRUTCHERMore credits tba

06/04/2024

NEW AWARDS!! • My Neo Noir Graphic Novel music video for BILL LLOYD “Look Into It,” has just Won for Best Music Video in Paris and London!!! Hoping for more in the next few weeks, so stay tuned! Until then, if you haven’t seen this award winning video, ya gotta see it!!! Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/n4kq6X2jY3M

01/04/2024

WAYBACK April 1, 1992 • 32 years ago today, I completed the JOHN ANDERSON music video, "When It Comes To You.” With the success of my previous music video for John, “Straight Tequila Night" I was asked to work on this follow-up. Since this is a MARK KNOPFLER song and he’s playing guitar on it, I was hoping he was going to be in the video. There was a lot of talk, but in the end, no Mark. But that’s okay, the video did very well without him. The video was shot in Nashville’s Fort Negley park and offers a series of visual color games along with other odd and interesting visuals to go with the song’s lyrics. I was going through a divorce at the time, so images like burning parchment with the words “Freedom” and “Dissolution,” was me getting a little personal. Ha! And, yes, the pretty femme fatale in the video is Mrs. John Anderson. • The song and music video were a #1 hit, won at the HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, and once again put me in the nomination group for CMA MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR for the third year in a row! • BTW - This is a remaster I created. It is technically and aesthetically superior to the recently posted 1992 label master.

Director/Camera/Editor • STEVE BOYLE Producer • MARY M. MATTHEWS Director of Photography • HAROLD JARBOE

22/03/2024

WORLD PREMIERE! • BILL LLOYD “Look Into It.” Boy did I have fun creating this music video! Since I created a Film Noir album cover for Bill’s new album, it was fun to take the theme further, creating a music video as a Neo Noir Graphic Novel. As far as I can tell, there isn’t another music video like it! “Look Into It” is a great song coming from Bill’s brand new brilliant album of the same name. I hope you enjoy the music video and I really hope you check out Bill’s new album “Look Into It” too! It’s great!!!

BILL LLOYD “Look Into It” music video by STEVE BOYLE SkidMedia | SkidFilms Inc. songwriters Bill Lloyd / Pat Buchanan Fourel Songs adm by BMG/Chrysallis (B...

21/03/2024

PREMIERING TOMORROW!! • BILL LLOYD “Look Into It” 𝗔 𝗡𝗲𝗼 𝗡𝗼𝗶𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼! There’s no other music video like it! Posting TOMORROW morning on YouTube at 7am Central (and yes, I’ll post it here on Facebook too, shortly after 7am).

06/02/2024

𝙃𝙚𝙮 𝙔𝙤𝙪! Be the first kid on your block to own this brand new BILL LLOYD t-shirt from his rockin' new album LOOK INTO IT. 𝘼𝙣𝙙, 𝙮𝙚𝙥, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙧𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙤-𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩-𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙩!!! I got mine!! Don’t be left out! Get yours today at this link: https://www.billlloydmusic.net/

25/01/2024

WAYBACK January 25, 2019 • 5 years ago today, I completed the JOE BLANTON with HOMEMADE SIN "Under High Cotton" Live music video. This is a stark-raving-rockin' performance from JOE BLANTON, WARNER HODGES, SEAN SAVACOOL, and MAURO MAGELLAN, performed Live at Nashville’s TRUE MUSIC ROOM. “Under High Cotton” was originally from THE BLUEFIELDS classic 2014 album. This performance was shot by me running a dozen cameras along with having way too much fun editing. If you haven't seen it. . . you gotta see it!

Under High Cotton - Joe Blanton backed by the mighty sounds of Homemade Sin! This vid was created by the awesome Steve Boyle of SkidMedia.com. and is a GREAT...

23/01/2024

MAC GAYDEN “FRIENDS OVER” THURSDAY @ 7pm • My concert film with a guest star list waaay too long to print here, premieres tomorrow, Thursday at the Belcourt Theatre 7pm. Big Thanks to DARYL SANDERS and the NASHVILLE SCENE for making it this week’s CRITICS’ PICK! [See link below for details.] Be there. . . or be square!

On Thursday, the Belcourt will host the world premiere of Mac Gayden “Friends Over,” a superb concert film celebrating the music of Mac Gayden, the hit songwriter and pioneering guitarist who was a member of session supergroup Area Code 615 and founder of the seminal Southern rock outfit Barefoo...

22/01/2024

WAYBACK January 22, 2021 • 3 years ago today, I completed GARDNERS OF SOULE “Put Your Mouth Where Your Mouth Is” lyric music video. Boy did I had a lot of fun making all of this eye candy. Just stare at it. It’s hypnotic! It’s a sort of a 21st Century psychedelic video with a bunch of Grunge tossed on top. • GOS are two members of North Carolina’s favorite power trio PKM (MIKE GARDNER & KENNY SOULE), along with PKM’s songwriter (PHILLIP GARDNER) and two members of SHERYL CROW's band (AUDLEY FREED & ROBERT KEARNS). You gotta see this! Turn it up!!

MICHAEL GARDNER • guitar AUDLEY FREED • guitar ROBERT KEARNS • bass KENNY SOULE • drums PHILLIP GARDNER • vocals music video by STEVE BOYLE SkidMedia | Skid...

11/01/2024

MAC GAYDEN “FRIENDS OVER” CONCERT FILM PREMIERE • I have had the honor of directing / editing this tribute to MAC GAYDEN and his 60 years of music. The two-and-a-half-hour concert film will Premiere at the BELCOURT THEATRE, Thursday, January 25th at 7pm. The celebration features a “cast of thousands” (see poster for guest star list). Watch it on the big screen this one and only time! More details at this link: https://www.belcourt.org/events/rental-screening-friends-over-concert-a-celebration-of-the-music-of-mac-gayden-over-60-years/ • See you there!

11/12/2023

WAYBACK December 11, 1988 • 35 years ago today I completed the music video, ALABAMA “Song Of The South.” • Normally record labels bid out music videos to three or four directors, looking for the best ideas. RCA Records called and told me there would be no bids, I had the video. RCA liked what I did with archives for Foster & Lloyd “Texas In 1880” and wanted another video with archives. When I read the lyrics to this BOB McDILL song, I got it right away! This is a great semi-story-song of a family struggling through the 1927 Flood, the Dust Bowl and Herbert Hoover’s Depression with the moral to the story of, if everyone works together like Roosevelt's New Deal, we can all survive and do well. I followed the storyline with archives along with integrating shots of RANDY OWEN in a cotton field and the band in a New Deal march in tiny Temperance Hall, Tennessee (which is a story all to itself!) and finally wrapping with a modern day performance at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The video quickly hit #1 and stayed there for what seemed like forever. • This video also put me in the nomination group for CMA Music Video Director of the Year. As of this writing, the video has over 45 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. My biggest compliment was from the songwriter, Bob McDill. He has over 30 #1 songs, and said that of all the videos created for his songs, this is his favorite.

Official video for "Song Of The South” by AlabamaListen to Alabama: https://alabama.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more videos by Alabama: https://alabama.lnk.to/liste...

06/12/2023

LOOK INTO IT!!! • I’ve created a lot of music visual media throughout the years, but I’ve never been asked to create an album cover. . . until now!! I am honored to have created BILL LLOYD “Look Into It” album art! It has a dark Neo-Noir feel to it - just right for today’s happy times. But, beyond my bit of artwork, you must listen to the album. It’s stark-raving brilliant! It’s a musically diverse album that goes through all sorts of moods and styles within the album’s collection of 14 original songs. If you want a copy to hold in your hand, you can pick one up at this link: https://www.billlloydmusic.net/ • I’ve also created the music video for this album. You can check out all of my A.I. lip-sync fun at this link: https://youtu.be/5nj_jJbniBc • You gotta look into it!

03/12/2023

WAYBACK December 3, 2008 • 15 years ago today I completed JOHN ANDERSON “Swingin’” promotional performance video. • I directed two #1 hit John Anderson music videos in the early 1990s, “Straight Tequila Night” and “When It Comes To You.” By 2008 I was back with John creating a few promotional performance videos. • Things worked out so well at SIR Nashville, shooting FELIX CAVALIERE’s performance videos, that I went back again, but this time with John Anderson. Here is John performing his all-time great Country classic, “Swingin’.” This was one of a series of songs shot that day. Watching this video you can tell I was having way too much fun running around shooting Rock style hand-held camerawork with John and some of Nashville’s best players. • BTW - As we were gathered, waiting in the hall for our time to enter SIR’s production stage 1, LYNDA CARTER (Wonder Woman) wandered into our group. She was waiting for her rehearsal studio next to ours. I had a chance to chat with her for a bit. While standing that close and talking to her, all I could think was, "Wow, what a truly pretty lady!!” She won Miss World USA for a reason!

Director/Videographer/Editor/Producer • STEVE BOYLEExecutive Producers • BOBBY ROBERTS / JIM DELLA CROCEDirector of Photography • JARBOELocation • SIR STUDIO...

02/12/2023

WAYBACK December 2, 2018 • 5 years ago today my commercial for the book, GARTH BROOKS "The Anthology, Part III: Live" premiered on CBS television network during prime time. This is a very cool book! You download the Garth App to your phone and then roll the phone over the book to discover portions of the book “come to life.” I created all of the “come to life” video clips for Garth's interactive book. I also created this book commercial. And that’s my hand holding the phone in the spot. • All the years I’ve worked in television and all of the videos I’ve created that have aired on networks around the world, I’ve always been behind the camera. My hand in this commercial is my “on camera” US broadcast network television debut! My mother happened to be watching CBS that night, saw the commercial and called me. She had no idea I created the commercial, but asked if that was my hand holding the phone. I was surprised with the question and said, “yes it’s my hand. . . how did you know?” She said, “oh, it looks just like your father’s hand.” Wow! I guess I can’t hide from genetics.

Garth Brooks' "The Anthology, Part III: Live" is available just in time for the holidays. Featuring a full-color booklet and 52 songs, this set also includes interactive components when linked with the Garth LIVE app.

04/08/2023

MORE AWARDS for CITY WITHOUT A SUBWAY 1986 • You can add Sydney, Australia to the list of film festivals awarding this short documentary looking back at the beginning of Nashville’s current Rock scene. The tally so far are 9 Awards (including a Silver Telly award!), along with 16 international film festival screenings from London, Dublin, Brussels, Florence, Paris and Sydney to Kansas, Sacramento, San Francisco, New Jersey, New York City, and Hollywood. • If you haven’t seen this bit of Nashville music history, you must check it out! It features Webb Wilder, Richie Owens, Bill Lloyd & Steve West today and in 1986, along with guest reporter Randy Fox, and super extra special guest narrator Jonell Mosser. . . and I show up in the film as well. You can watch this multi award winning short documentary here: https://youtu.be/ocsn3yRN0w4