The Borderline was a London music venue on the eastern edge of Soho at Orange Yard and Manette St, off Charing Cross Road.

Founded by Ian Howard and John Northcote in 1985,[1] The Borderline opened in the basement of tex mex restaurant Break for the Border, located at 127-133 Charing Cross Rd.

[5] Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Uncle Tupelo, The Jayhawks, The Sadies, Whiskeytown, The Drive-By Truckers, Over the Rhine, Sarah Harmer, and Josh Ritter all played the basement stage.

DHP temporarily closed the venue for extensive refurbishment and reopened the space with a thoroughly revamped décor and an upgraded sound system in March 2017.

[8] However, citing rising rents due to ongoing real estate developments in the area,[9] DHP permanently closed the doors of The Borderline in August 2019.