John Ryan, Ben Blomander

LONDON — The Sugababes recently played at the 100 Club in London's Oxford Street, and Concert Sound (Luton), the show's equipment organizer, chose HK Audio's ConTour Array, brought in from London-based ConTour users, Euroscope TV and Picture It Facilities Ltd. FOH engineer was Chris Madden.

TUCSON, AZ — As of January 1, 2007, all orders for TRUE Systems products are to be placed directly with TRUE Systems through their Tucson headquarters, as Sennheiser Electronic Corporation (SEC) is no longer the exclusive U.S. distributor for TRUE.

DALY CITY, CA — Digidesign has announced the appointment of Kyle Ritland to the position of worldwide public relations manager, in which role he will be responsible for leading artist relations and public relations efforts across all Digidesign product lines and market segments, including home and project studio, professional recording and mixing for post and music, and live sound products.

NEW YORK — SLS Loudspeakers will provide the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) with a sound solution in audio support during the organization's 34th Annual Conference, to be held at the Hilton and Sheraton New York Hotels between January 10th and January 13th. This year's four-day show, celebrating jazz, will be outfitted with an SLS line-up composed of 52 SLS RLA/2s, 48 SLS RLA/3s, 10 SLS FF2605s and several SLS LSB8115 subwoofers.

NORTHRIDGE, CA — The Harman Pro Group has announced the creation of a new strategic marketing position focused on integrated systems and coordinated multi-brand communications. According to Blake Augsburger, president of Harman Pro Group, Michael MacDonald has rejoined the company to assume the newly created position of executive vice president, marketing, based at the Group's Northridge, Calif. headquarters.

ZWAAG, THE NETHERLANDS — For the promotion of their latest album Feelin' Good, jazz artists Joe Sample (piano) and Randy Crawford (vocals) have been touring through Europe, accompanied by Joe's son Nick on (contra-) bass and Johnny Vidacovich on drums, reinforced by Alcons pro-ribbon line-arrays.

MERIDIAN, MS — American Idol's Bo Bice visited Peavey on November 28, 2006, as a celebrity judge in the Peavey "Afterschool (Not) Idle" K-12 singing competition finals, the centerpiece event of Lights On Afterschool. Bice addressed the afterschool-program kids, media and state leaders after helping crown Marisa Potate the winner of $1000 in Peavey gear and studio time with backing musicians.

BERKELEY, CA — Meyer Sound has announced the MJF-212, a self-powered stage monitor loudspeaker designed to meet critical requirements in professional applications, such as use as a main vocal monitor, drum or keyboard monitor or as a sidefill monitor in small- to medium-scale systems. The MJF-212 exhibits flat amplitude and phase responses and full-range bandwidth.