John Balance
Biography: Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founder of the experimental music group Coil, in collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson. Coil was active from 1982 to Balance's death in 2004. He was responsible for the majority of Coil's vocals, lyrics and chants, along with synthesizers and various other instruments both commonplace and esoteric. Outside Coil he collaborated with Cultural Amnesia (at the beginning of the 1980s), Nurse with Wound, Death in June, Psychic TV, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Thighpaulsandra, and produced several Nine Inch Nails remixes.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 16, 1962
Deathday: November 13, 2004
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Coil, the death of Jhon Balance
2020-05-25
Coil, the death of Jhon Balance
Overview: Documentary featuring Peter Christopherson discussing his histories with Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil - the much missed groundbreaking band he would form with his lover Jhon Balance and develop over decades. Coil came to its end with the tragic and futile November 2004 death of Balance, a death that Peter and many others had feared was coming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-25
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A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance
2023-09-08
A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance
Overview: Founders of Coil, a cult entity of experimental industrial British music, Peter Christopherson and John Balance also directed films from 1970 to 1980, exhumed and restored by Timeless. Shot on 8 and 16mm film, these unclassifiable subversive marvels, unsettling and trippy, garbed in gay masochist aesthetics, are as much family films, performances, body horror and urban nightmares. They're above all characterized by a tormented imagination under the sign of Eros and Thanatos with an irrepressible taste for death. There was an empty space next to Antony Balch, Derek Jarman and Jean Genet : it's no longer vacant. Maxime Lachaud and Reivaks Timeless deliver a unique document, haunted by the duo’s music, with this one way journey into limbo, where they’re joined by the recently deceased Monte Cazazza, a founding father of the concept of industrial music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-08
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The Sound of Progress
1988-01-01
The Sound of Progress
Overview: This documentary shows the mindset of the some of the most original and influential artists of the experimental scene (Coil, Current 93, Foetus, Test Dept.). An unprecedented insight into the workings, the methods and the ideas that made these names legendary. Filmed in Hamburg, Amsterdam and London, 1985-1987.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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A Well Hung Monk
2008-10-17
A Well Hung Monk
Overview: Documentation of ritual performance by Black Sun Productions featuring Jhonn Balance of Coil. Montage of Polaroid photos by Peter Christopherson taken at The North Tower, Weston-super-Mare on August 23, 2002 during "Plastic Spider Thing 11". Edited in 2008, USA.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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Coil: Dublin 2004
2004-10-23
Coil: Dublin 2004
Overview: Coil's very final live appearance at the 2004 Dublin Electronic Arts Festival held in the Dublin City Hall.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-23
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Coil: Paris 2004
2004-05-23
Coil: Paris 2004
Overview: Live in Paris
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-23
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Coil: Colour Sound Oblivion
2010-07-01
Coil: Colour Sound Oblivion
Overview: 16 DVD boxset by Threshold House, containing video registrations of the following Coil performances: Air Gallery, London, 24-08-1983 SONAR, Barcelona, 17-06-2000 Convergence, New York, 18-08-2001 DK Gorbunova, Moscow, 15-09-2001 Teatro Delle Celebraziani, Bologna, 06-04-2002 New Forms, Den Haag, 07-06-2002 Vagonka, Konigsberg, 29-09-2002 Ydrogeios, Thessaloniki, 05-10-2002 Flex, Vienna (+ Prague), 29-10-2002 La Loco, Paris, 23-05-2004 Mutek, Montreal, 29-05-2003 Melkweg, Amsterdam, 03-06-2004 (Selvagina), Jesi, 11-06-2004 City Hall, Dublin, 23-10-2004 The Coil Reconstruction Kit (2 discs)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Coil: Live in Moscow 2001
2002-01-01
Coil: Live in Moscow 2001
Overview: A professionally filmed and edited video of Coil's performance at DK Gorbunova in Moscow, Russia on September 15, 2001. This release was given to attendees at Coil's return to Moscow on September 26, 2002, and was also made available for sale. Setlist Something/Higher Beings Command Amethyst Deceivers 6:10 What Kind Of Animal Are You? 8:30 Blood From The Air 6:20 The Green Child 7:30 Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil 15:30
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Coil: Prague 2002
2002-01-01
Coil: Prague 2002
Overview: Coil Live Prague 2002
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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