Michael Hann

Livestream-hopping is just as irritating as being at a real festival

Recreating the feel of a festival from your sofa – complete with terrible sightlines and not enough actual music – is disconcertingly easy

'I ain't no doctor': Ice-T, right, and 'Uncle Ralph', left, pictured on the Hip Hop Loves NY livestream 
issue 02 May 2020
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The ghost of Samuel Beckett oversaw the Hip Hop Loves NY livestream last Thursday night. Time and time again its host, the veteran hip-hop TV presenter Ralph McDaniels — known to all his guests, unnervingly, as ‘Uncle Ralph’ — tried to connect to some Golden Age legend. Time and time again, his attempts at a straightforward interview went wrong.

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