Bob Geldof writes letter decrying Band Aid 30 criticism

Bob Geldof has penned a letter to criticise those who have questioned the new Band Aid single.

The charity project re-launched 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' last month to raise money for the fight against Ebola.

It featured the likes of One Direction and Bono and celebrated the campaign's 30th annivesary, but some criticised the effectiveness and motives of the project.

Speaking in a letter published in the Independent today (December 15), Band Aid leader Geldof said:

"Whatever impenetrable b**locks has been spoken about this little song, the reality has been 30 non-stop years of Band Aid work, hundreds of millions of dollars raised and spent, millions of lives bettered...In the face of that, who gives a f**k what some ill-informed, stupid, cliched, metropolitan bunch of t**ts from 'Cooltown' think disputing the words of a minor pop song, questioning the artists, querying the motivation behind it? And all this sickening petty irrelevance against what the BBC called 'the industrial-scale dying' of those one plane ride away from us. If you can't get a life then why not try to give one to others? Whatever...

"But be assured that I, for one, and all the others involved in Band Aid will never stop. And nor will millions of other people, real people, who saw those other real people in unimaginable terror and pain, and wanted to do something, however simple... In buying this record that is what most people will do. They will reach across the abyss of human suffering. For whatever the cynics say, the impulse of compassion will always triumph."

Watch the Band Aid 30 video below: