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Emma Butterfield

Mind Your Manners

Emma Butterfield has a chat with rising grime talent Rude Kid

A cruel injustice

In the early hours of 8 March 2008 Alejandro Ordaz Moreno, a PhD student, was seized at gunpoint as he left a bar in...

Oxford Revue: Fear

 Dir. Tom Meltzer. OFS 7.30pm Tues-Sat; 2.30pm Sat; 7th Week I’ve spent a lot of time laughing lately, and my face hurts. Further, the realisation...

Film Review: A Crude Awakening

by Emma ButterfieldThis is not porn. Cherwell might sign its editor up to an escort agency, but it hasn’t yet sunk to reviewing porn....

Album Review: The Libertines, Best Of

by Emma Butterfield Pete Doherty. The Libertines. Made your mind up already? The album contains no unreleased material, and I imagine the rationale behind...

Roisin Murph – Overpowered review

By Emma Butterfield**** I feel a certain affinity with Róisín Murphy, as she’s clearly a frustrated science undergraduate. Why else would she refer to oxytocin...

Create your own soundscape

Humans share ninety eight per cent of their genes with chimpanzees,but according to researchers at Keele University, the latter show no preferencefor music over...