John Newsham
Loudspeaker designer and co-founder, Turbosound and Funktion-One
Major contribution
John Newsham co-developed Turbosound and Funktion-One loudspeaker systems for touring, festivals and dance-music reinforcement.
John Newsham began working with the Steve Hillage Band in 1976 and met Tony Andrews while touring in 1977. They co-founded Turbosound in 1978 and developed successive generations of reinforcement systems, including TMS-3, Flashlight and Floodlight.
Newsham and Andrews founded Funktion-One in 1992. Alongside the company’s loudspeaker development, Newsham continued mixing live performances, including a long association with Underworld; his 2020 retirement announcement explicitly described a return to more live engineering.
Key work
- Turbosound co-founding (1978)
- Funktion-One co-founding (1992)
- Dance Stack (2002)
- Evolution Series (2015)
- Vero touring system (2016)
In the chronology
Selected sources
- Funktion-One Co-Founder John Newsham Retires · Mix
- Last Word with Tony Andrews, Part 2 · AudioTechnology