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Peter Liddle

Dry the River’s (2009-2015) frontman. Born in Norway to British parents, his early life was a shifting one thanks to his father’s work as an engineer in the oil industry. By the time Liddle returned to Newbury as a teenager, he and the various members of Dry the River – guitarist Matthew Taylor, Scott Miller (bass) and Jon Warren (drums) – were crossing paths in various bands on the DIY scene centred around Southampton, Reading and Newbury’s Waterside Youth Centre. University took Liddle first to Bristol, where he studied anthropology, and then to London’s Kings College, where he enrolled in medical school and - with ten years of band experience behind him - started writing folky material in his hall of residence room and, on summer break, called on those old friends from the Reading scene – by now all living in London – to record them.