John Balance
Actor
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.
Filmography
Coil, the death of Jhon Balance
as himself 2020
The Sound of Progress
as Himself 1988
A Well Hung Monk
as Himself 2008
Coil: Dublin 2004
as Himself 2004
Coil: Prague 2002
as Himself 2002
Coil: Paris 2004
as Himself 2004
Coil: Live in Moscow 2001
as Himself 2002