Band Aid 30 is 'cringeworthy', says British Ebola nurse

[dutchman]

The British nurse who survived Ebola has described Bob Geldof’s Band Aid charity single as “cringeworthy” and “culturally ignorant”.



William Pooley, who went back to work at an isolation unit in Sierra Leone despite having been airlifted to London after catching the disease, has criticised the reworked version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas”.

“On the way into work I heard the first half of it. It's definitely being talked about here among my colleagues,” he told Radio Times magazine.

“But stuff about Do They Know It's Christmas? - it's just like, actually people live normal lives here and do normal things.

"It's Africa, not another planet. That sort of cultural ignorance is a bit cringeworthy. There's a lyric about 'death in every tear'. It's just a bit much."

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 11054.html

[dutchman]

Bob Geldof hits back at Band Aid critics: 'They can f*ck off'



Bob Geldof has told Band Aid critics to “f**k off” after Ebola nurse William Pooley said the single was “cringeworthy” and “culturally ignorant”.

The former Boomtown Rats singer said Pooley, who survived Ebola and flew back to Sierra Leone to help fight the disease, needed to calm down.

"Please. It's a pop song. Relax", he said.

Pooley told Radio Times: “It’s Africa, not another planet. That sort of cultural ignorance is a bit cringeworthy. There’s a lyric about ‘death in every tear’. It’s a bit much.”

After hearing his comment, Geldof told The Telegraph: “It’s a pop song, it’s not a doctoral thesis. [Critics] can f*** off.”

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 12594.html

[rebbonk]

[Critics] can f*** off.”

That just about sums the self serving, publicity hungry, tax avoiding, oaf, up!