The Other Side of Your Mind

Gig News!

2009-05-26T15:16:44Z

We are playing at the Water Rats in Kings Cross, London this coming Friday - please come along if you are in the area.

You can get in for £6, providing you email Sandrine (seize_sandrine[at]yahoo.co.uk) your full name and arrive before 10pm. Otherwise it will be £8 entry.

Our new album "Constant Fight" will be available to buy even though it is not yet released, so if you are eager to get your hands on a copy (as I am sure you all are), then this is your chance! ;)

Hope to see lots of you there!

xx

Elektrofest 2009

2009-04-08T13:39:37Z

Hi guys,

We will be playing this years Elektrofest at Dingwalls in Camden this coming Sunday. It will be our first gig for over 18 months and the first gig with our new drummer (Michel) and guitarist (Elie), as well as the first time we have played songs from our new album that is being released on June 12th.

If you are thinking of going, then you can get your tickets from us for £10 (cheaper than anywhere else I believe) and will be entered into a competition to win a copy of our new album "Constant Fight" when it is released. You can mail us @ seize.info[at]googlemail.com and we will get back to you asap.

The £10 also covers entry into the aftershow party where Implant will be playing.

Please come along and show us some support - we are very nervous but looking forward to it immensely :)

Line-up:

XPQ-21 + Mechanical Cabaret + Modern + Uturns + Scarlet Soho + Marlow + Seize + Greenhaus + Cult With No Name

Ashes to Ashes

2008-02-07T12:44:25Z

If anyone watches Ashes to Ashes tonight, BBC1 at 9pm....
See if you can spot Sandrine - she is the backing singer for Steve Strange in the Blitz scene.. :-)

Quick update!

2006-11-28T02:04:07Z

We have a remix of a new track called Craving up on our MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/seize), as well as on our Pure Volume page (http://www.purevolume.com/seize) and the website has had a revamp - go take a look, even though it is still not 100% finished! :)(http://www.seize.org.uk)

We're getting quite a collection of new tunes, so we will hopefully upload some to myspace/purevolume/website for you to have a listen to soon.

Rosie x

gig

2006-09-01T13:47:04Z

Hi

Just to remind everyone that we are playing tomorrow night (2nd Sep) at Electrowerkz along with the lovely Trauma Pet and fab XPQ21....

If you don't have a ticket, you can email me at seize_steven@yahoo.co.uk and i will endeavour to get you on the famous 'frank flag paying guest list' which will be cheaper than buying a ticket.. Free entrance to Slimes after too... I will probably look at my email at 3pm tomorrow for the last time so anyone that emails after that will miss out...

Hope to see you there....

INFEST

2006-08-22T12:14:53Z

Hi peeps..

Just to remind you, if you didn't know or forgot, that OVNI are playing Infest on Saturday.
I've been pestering Mark for 3 years to play and finally the head lock seemed to work !
We are on stage at 4pm sharp so please don't miss us if you are in sunny Bradford..

I'll be airing a new song so come along and 'Help me out'.... errr so that i won't have a 'Panic Inside' :-)

Cheers

On the SEIZE front, we are still working on the bloody 3rd album..... Got 5 tracks which really isn't enough is it...Must try harder...

You can hear the latest new track on the forthcoming Alfa Matrix release...
[Aug. 29 2006] V/A - "Alfa Matrix - Re:connected [2.0]" 2CD

Thats all for now...

see ya..

giggage

2006-05-17T12:21:48Z

Hi kids

Just a reminder about our upcoming gig with Apoptygma on Monday 22nd May at Islington Academy.

Looks like we are the first band on, as usual with a Flag production ! So if you want to see us, get there early. We will be on stage at 7:30..

Also, if you are still looking for tickets for that, then look no further.
I am selling them at £12 each (face value £14)

Thats not all !

Looks like we will be supporting Apop in Sheffield on Sunday 21st May at the Corporation and Tuesday 23rd May in Birmingham at Edwards No.8.
So if you are around near either of those places please drop in and say hi..

Why does this entry read like a crappy advert for DFS ? :-/

Anyway, schpater

APOP show...

2006-04-21T13:16:05Z

Don't forget kids...

If you want to see APOP on Monday 22nd May at Islington Academy.
Or if you want to see SEIZE ?
You can get tickets from me, as we will be supporting ! :-)

Its our first London gig for over a year.... Who knows when the next one will be, so don't miss it.
We will be playing a new song from the forthcoming 3rd album too !!

Just send £12 to me through paypal seize_steven@yahoo.co.uk

or drop a brown envelope off with cash in it !

ta

Steve

Rehearsals and remixes

2006-04-03T13:13:22Z

I don't normally update the journal very often but what the hell...

The weekend was spent rehearsing, remixing and getting drunk. If only every weekend could be the same !

Not sure if we mentioned that we are playing SAMA in Gothenburg on Friday 14th April. With De/Vision, Iris and VNV to name a few...
http://www.sama.mu/
Only our second gig with Sean the drummer. Hence the feaverish rehearsals all day on Saturday...
We will be rehearsing again this saturday in Brizzol...

Hopefully soon we can confirm a rare London gig coming up (we seem to play more in Europe than at home)
Will announce once its confirmed..

Sunday was spent locked in the studio all day finishing the Trauma Pet remix.
We remixed 'Controlled Hysteria', and its damn good if I do say so myself... :-)
They wanted a 'dance mix' - Boy did they get it ha ha

That will be the last remix for a while, as we really want to concentrate on new SEIZE tracks for the next album...

Thats all really..

see ya

itunes

2006-03-10T12:29:43Z

SEIZE and OVNI on itunes !! ....

No new material unfortunately. :-/

We are still working on the 3rd SEIZE album and will hopefully be ready by the summer....fingers and toes crossed..

Shame to hear about Goteki !! RIP
Good luck Rossy-boy

I have a feeling Goteki won't be the last casualty... :-/

Hoogstraten gig

2006-01-23T14:18:41Z

So technically, everything that could go wrong, went wrong!

Minidisc messed up in the first song, one of Steven's keyboards died in the second song, which meant a load of lead lines were missing from the following 10 songs and just before we went onstage, the sound engineer neglected to tell us that there was some massive distortion coming from the mixing desk and through Sean's headphones, so he couldn't hear the backing/click track. That resulted in him being "off" on a few songs.

Complete nightmare.

So frustrating, because we have been so tight in rehearsals and even in the soundcheck, we did 4/5 songs and they were all perfect.

Apparently it didn't sound as bad FOH as it did to us onstage and the crowd were really great - weirdly, they loved it! Afterwards, there were a whole group of kids (you can see in the picture below that I really mean kids ;)) came to the back door of the venue asking for photos and autographs!

So despite all the problems, it was still a good gig. We were lucky that the crowd were so forgiving!

The sound engineer seemed a bit embarrassed afterwards - he told Sean that he'd had some problems he couldn't fix...

Onwards and upwards! You win some, you lose some!

Sandrine and the kids!

A big thank you to Bart and the Je m'en fish crew for looking after us so well and having us play and Jan from Diskonnekted who travelled a long way to see us! :D

giggage !

2006-01-16T13:11:40Z

Bit of SEIZE news...

We have our first gig of the year on Friday in Hoogstraten, near Antwerp in Belgium. Our first gig with Sean, the new drummer.
I'm very nervous about it actually, and we have been furiously rehearsing all weekend much to the annoyance of my neighbours I'm sure. A full on acoustic drum kit being bashed for 6 hours is bound to upset you a tad !
We will be airing a brand new song as well... so no pressure !

Other gig news:
Playing in Holland in March sometime (can't remember where or when)
Back again to Belgium to support Front 242 in Brussels on 3rd March
And we are also playing SAMA with IRIS and DeVision in April, so thats exciting!! :-)

No UK gigs this year so far !!

Apart from that, we have 4 songs nearly finished for the next album - working on the next 8 !!

Cheers

stuff

2005-11-01T13:35:21Z

I don't normally update the journal basically because i can't be arsed most of the time, and the fact that i am very shy... ;-) oh yeah, and Rosie is the internet guru of the band, so i leave it to her normally !

But the last time any SEIZE update went on here was July, so i thought i would tell you what we are doing.....if you are interested ? If not - move along !

Here goes.....

We have no gigs for the rest of this year, but have a couple of things in the pipeline for January/February 2006 in Belgium and Holland. More details nearer the time.

We have started work on the as yet to be named 3rd album, and have pretty much finished 2 tracks. They are sounding a bit darker and slower, sounding like a mixture of the first 2 albums, and Sandrine is singing very well ! Lets hope we can get another 10 tracks completed by Spring next year...

The plan is to go on tour to promote the album next year supporting a biggish name......tentative plans ! ;-)

This Saturday we have our first rehearsal with our new drummer Sean. He is a very good breakbeat drummer so we are all really excited to be working with him. It will give an added extra element to the live performance..

And thats it SEIZE wise really..

And finally - Don't forget to buy the OVNI album out now on Alfa Matrix ;-)

Gigs!

2005-07-26T23:03:02Z

We are pleased to announce that Pluswelt Promotion is the new booking agent for Seize! We have 2 dates coming up later this year:

Pluswelt Festival

Clan of Xymox
Client
Seabound
Seize

17.09.2005
Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany.
Please see Pluswelt for details.

Pluswelt Festival

Apoptygma Berzerk
Mesh
Combichrist
Visage
Client
Diorama
Clan of Xymox
Beborn Beton
Icon of Coil
Grendel
XPQ 21
Seize

14/15.10.2005
Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece

WGT/mind.in.a.box Remix

2005-05-29T15:02:36Z

WGT was fantastic as always and we'd like thank everyone who came to watch us, even though we clashed with the Human League!!
We'd also like to say a huge thank you to Jan Winterfeld and Wiebcke Hofschild for looking after us and Ross (robotochan) and Alex for being fantastic roadies ;)

For those who are interested, the set list was:

The Other Side
Don't Let Me
Insanity
Lost In Space
Because of Me
Wishful Thinking
Unbreakable

In other news, we recently completed a remix of the mind.in.a.box track "Certainty", which appears on the recently released single of the same name. We are also happy to report that the single is currently at number 7 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC)!

The next few months are probably going to be a bit on the quiet side where Seize gigs are concerned, as we are in the process of writing the third album. We'll keep you posted :)

Thanks for reading,
Rosie

Busy, busy, busy

2005-04-05T13:28:28Z

As most of you are probably aware now, Steve Strange has recruited the three of us as the new members of Visage mark II, along with Ross from Goteki!
It's been a bit manic the past few months, so apologies for the lack of updates on the Seize front, but to be honest it's been pretty quiet on that side of things.

However, we do have a gig coming up this week (April 9th) with the fantastic Seabound and Pride and Fall.

We are also confirmed to play the Wave Gotik Treffen festival in Leipzig, Germany. We will be playing the "Parkschlosschen" Stage on May 15th at 23:30.
The line up for our particular stage is:

IAMX
CLIENT
SEIZE
MILU
DISTORTED REALITY

Thanks for reading. That's all for now!!
Rosie x

Aber hallo

2005-02-27T01:53:39Z

Hello everyone. Welcome to our new journal! Now that we are no longer listed as being born in 1997, we can actually update you on what's going on in the world of Seize again! But not now, I'm tired ;)