John Balance
Born 16th February 1962. In Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, as Geoffrey Laurence Burton. Rushton is the Sir-name of his step-father and Rushton was the surname he carried thru school etc.

"Coil" co-founder, writer, producer, remixer, has been a member of 23 Skidoo, Psychic TV, Zos Kia, and Current 93.

John met Peter Christopherson, as a teenager and being a big fan of Throbbing Gristle and attended the live recording of Heathen Earth. Throbbing Gristle performed at Oundle School, but John was attending Lord Williams in Thame Oxforshire, contrary to rumors that John arranged for TG to perform at his school.

John and Peter started to officially work as "Coil" on May 11, 1983 after working together as members of Psychic TV.

Peter Christopherson
Born 27 February 1955. In Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

"Coil" co-founder, writer, producer, video director, remixer, Psychic TV co-founder, Throbbing Gristle co-founder, artist, member of Hipgnosis design team, Sleazy the eighth dwarf.

Stephen Thrower
Born December 9th 1963 in Ashton-Under-Lyme, Manchester. Birth certificate name: Andrew Stephens. Adopted 1964 and re-named Stephen Thrower. Brought up in Yorkshire (apart from two years in Cheshire, directly beside the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope). Schooled in various comprehensives: Marsden, Kinsley and Hemsworth.

In 1980, Stephen formed "Possession" with Victor Watkins and Anna Virgina War. They released one album: The Thin White Arms, Obtusely Angled At The Elbow, Methodically Dipping And Emerging (A-Mission, 1984).

Stephen made contact with Throbbing Gristle by letter in 1979 and followed up his interest in the particular contribution of Peter Christopherson after learning that he and John Balance had left PSYCHIC TV to found their own group, "Coil". Following this, he was invited to join them in the studio to record tracks for the first "Coil" album, Scatology. Stephen left "Coil" in 1992. However, cetain demons have departed and new ideas are being formed towards a possible collaboration in the future.

Otto Avery
Born 29th February 1968 in Dublin, Ireland.

He is listed as a member on "Gold Is The Metal" and "Love's Secret Domain", although according to Sleazy, he didn't actually contribute musically but was simply a young guy who looked good in their publicity shots. Sleazy also commented that the name has been used by John Balance on occassion.

Danny Hyde
Born 1962 in Newton Abbott -Devon England. Grew up from age 1 in various parts of London, spent years 9-30 in Notting hill London. Got 1st break in Point Studio 1982, as tea boy. Spent 1st year in caravan, on site (bit like trailer park)

Spent dead studio time at Christmas 1982 experimenting with the band Savage Progress , spent 1983 producing demo's for Savage Progress, get deal with Virgin Ten label. Release 1st Savage Progress single at end of 1983, becomes hit in Germany. 1985 enter Paradise Studios (Europe's first totally computer studio), meet all kinds of people here including Psychic TV, and later "Coil".

Drew McDowall
Born 28th January 1961. In Paisley, Scotland. Ex-husband to Rose, but no known relations to Andie, Roddy, or Malcom, has worked with "Coil" regularly for the past several years, and become an official member of the band in 1995.

Contributing musician for "Coil" before becoming the third member in 1995. Also, currently working on a solo project under the name of Screwtape.

Drew met his wife, Nicole Dorsey, while recording in New Orleans in September 1996. They married in February, 1997. Drew has a daughter from a previous marriage.

William Breeze
Born in Paris, France on August 12th, 1955 and currently residing in Austin, Texas. Breeze has been a "Coil" member as an electric viola player since 1997, although he also plays guitar, bass and electronics.

He was a boy scout in the 1960s, worked with Angus Maclise (poet-percussionist and VU cofounder) and was a hippie Harvard student in the 1970s, and recently played on PTV's "Trip Reset" and "Cold Blue Torch" as well as Splinter Test's "Fractured Garden" and "Spatial Memory" (all of which were reworkings of the same session). William is currently the executive director for a not-for-profit organization.

Thighpaulsandra
Born June 19, 1958 in Pontypridd, Wales as Timothy Lewis to a family of musicians. His grandfather being a conductor and mother, Dorothy Lewis an opera singer. He was frequently taken to classical concerts from an early age and studied French horn, church organ and piano. He was a member of the cathedral choir at Cathedral School in Llandaff, Wales as well as Christ College, Brecon, Wales.

He had a strange band in school with odd combinations of instruments. Avant garde was normal to him even though he didn't care much for the concerts he went to. He has worked as a session musician for unmentionable acts as well as a recording engineer and spent 8 years working in a psychiatric hospital as a staff nurse. He eventually quit the day job.

As engineer, he met Julian Cope. They got along very well, both being Kraut-rock fans and Cope asked him to join his group. He has also been a touring member of Spiritualised and has worked with Jodie Evans of Anal.

In 1997, John Balance met Thighpaulsandra at a concert. Both had been fans of each other and Balance asked him to join "Coil".

Simon Norris
Born April 3, 1969 - North London, UK, where he resides. Fulltime member, Cyclobe, Coil. He is also known as Ossian Brown.

Brought up as part of an army family, moving between several different homes in the South of England and West Germany. At seventeen, he moved to London and became involved with Temple Records and Psychic TV, contributing artworks and graphics to their 'Hyperdelic' period, before recording and touring in the early 1990s with Death In June and the folk group Fire and Ice.

Simon Norris's evolving musical interests led to a close friendship with John Balance and Peter Christopherson, of "Coil". It was whilst living with them at the Coil household in 1992 that he first met Stephen Thrower, then also a member of the group. Thrower left "Coil" the following year, and Norris opted to stop working with Death In June soon after. The two forged a lasting bond and, in order to pursue their combined musical ambitions, set about recording what was to become the first Cyclobe album, Luminous Darkness, recorded between 1997-99 at Strange Hotel.

Simon is also a member of the group "Coil" and has participated in their acclaimed live shows, contributing sonically and conceptually since their first Time Machines performance at The Royal Festival Hall in London 2000. He has also contributed to various Coil studio recordings, including the albums Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil and Queens of the Circulating Libary.