In support of the Cashless Nigeria initiative, 800 lucky MasterCard cardholders, with their partners, will win tickets to a UEFA Champions League Final 2012 Fan Viewing Experience, hosted by MasterCard on 19 May 2012 in Lagos. In addition, three lucky MasterCard cardholders will be chosen in a lucky draw to enjoy MasterCard hospitality at the UEFA finals event in Munich.
MasterCard cardholders in Nigeria simply need to use their payment cards to make a purchase by mid-May 2012 and they will automatically be entered into the competition.
The MasterCard Fan Viewing Experience will be an invitation-only event hosted in Lagos with a live feed of the UEFA Champions League Final 2012 from Munich. The 800 lucky MasterCard cardholder winners, along with their partners will be accompanied by Nigerian football legends and other VIP guests.
PlayBoy marketing trick worked since it is discussed here… beats producing these days, isn’t it?But seriously, the announced demise of Decca is indeed a very sad news. The Decca sound of the 1950s-60s beats any new release I have heard recently. It was with Mercury Living Presence the real deal, dynamics, clarity, balance and the best pressed examples are treasures to listen even after 50 years. James Lock, Kenneth Wilkinson showed how it should be done, shaming the Deustche Grammophone nasal midrange outputs.But the 1980-90s brought change: digital became an excuse for not so alive recordings where the ambiance was privileged over the instruments’ sound. This coincided with the use of poor dynamics -below or around 90dB/w/m-monitoring equipment in studios and at home effectively killing the presence in sound. That’s what this amateur who grew up with the Ace of Club series of his father felt.Tonight I’ll enjoy a taste of Mantovani’s Malaguena album of 1962 pure Decca sound: there are better guilty pleasures in life than PlayBoy!