The Borderline and The Garage - Latest acquisitions from DHP Family
DHP Family, the Nottingham music company behind Rock City, Stealth, The Rescue Rooms and The Bodega has acquired London venues The Borderline and The Garage from Live Nation.
The company took possession of The Borderline, in Soho, on Friday (27 May), with the deal to acquire The Garage, in Highbury, subject to completion but expected to “fall in place very shortly”.
First opened in 1993, The Garage has hosted live music from The Killers, Mumford & Sons, Suede Green Day, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Paramore, Oasis and My Chemical Romance. The Borderline, meanwhile, is regarded as a Soho music institution, an underground and intimate live venue that has over twenty years of history and hosted acts such as REM and The Libertines when they were on their way up.
As well as their Nottingham venues, DHP Family currently operates one other venue in London (the 375-capacity Oslo in Hackney), as well as Thekla in Bristol, a 500 capacity docked boat.
Promotions-wise they also run Manchester Cathedral’s music programme and promote over 1,500 tours a year for acts like Ed Sheeran, The Human League, Flaming Lips and UB40. They organise festivals such as Splendour (Wollaton Park) DotToDot (Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol), Hit The Deck (Nottingham), No Tomorrow (Nottingham), Mirrors (London) and Everywhere (Nottingham). They also manage music acts such as Indiana, D.I.D and Rhodes (a singer songwriter for Hertforshire).
DHP Family managing director George Akins says: “We hope this is a start of new era for these venues. Having delivered a successful model with Oslo, we feel London would welcome more venues offering this type of high-quality experience.”
DHP Family website
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