Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

It’s here! I did it! Written, arranged, performed, produced and released! PRESS RELEASE….. From the opening lines of A Bolt From Above, Judge-Silver sets his stall out as the outsider; ‘a square peg in a round hole, and it’s sending him under’. Self-deprecation runs like a burning river of lava through this self-assured debut. With…

Exiled to the Far East, (for reasons we cannot legally go in to) the shunned, but stubbornly defiant, Vincent Valmera now seeks to make his return to Blighty.  Unfortunately, by the evidence of this rambling, tape-recorded message, the music producer extraordinaire is still not fit for the psychological demands of the music business. The Judge-Silver…

Judge-Silver’s songs are sirens of hope, screaming out out to those of us still stumbling around, like zombies, on the torn fringes of life.  And the message is, ‘Don’t bother trying to fit in, there is no box for you.’ Judge-Silver’s music celebrates the lost pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, the fragments, the odd-balls.  Playing…

Hi all, strange that I’m back writing, recording and producing songs. But it’s where I started age 15 in Birmingham, struggling to play three chords and not much has changed!! Digging deep for inspiration, but I’d say I’m half way through with enough material for an album. But then, albums don’t seem to exist anymore,…