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An Italian collector, Marco Brusadelli from Cisano Bergamasco, has been officially recognised by Guinness World Records for holding the largest collection of nightclub and rave flyers. The certified count is 113,012 flyers, spanning events from 1985 to 2015 – a paper trail of dance culture across three decades.
Marco started in 1991, the pre-social era when a flyer was still the invitation, the teaser and the map. He peeled them from club walls and lamp posts while travelling, then filed and preserved them at home. Over time, the folders multiplied into a proper archive. He says the collection covers house, techno, trance, hardcore, drum & bass, EDM and more – not just the parties themselves, but the visual language that sold those nights to the world.
The official record stops at 113,012 because of Guinness rules, but Brusadelli’s full archive is “just short of 120,000” items. More than 40,000 are from Italy, and roughly 11,600 come from the UK – a reminder of how scenes in different countries traded ideas long before algorithms did the matchmaking.
What makes this story land is not the number; it’s the care. Brusadelli sorts the flyers by country, party, genre, tempo and style. He talks about the collection as a piece of cultural memory, built for no commercial reason, with the hope it pushes younger fans to look back and understand the “house and techno revolution.” If you’ve ever kept a wristband in a drawer or a crumpled print-out in a coat pocket, you know the feeling – that urge to hold the night a little longer.
It’s easy to scroll past a poster on your phone. It’s harder to throw away a piece of card that once convinced you to leave the house. Brusadelli kept them all, and in doing so, kept a living record of our nightlife.
Read more about Marco, and his collection here!
