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Italian Collector Sets Guinness Record with Over 113,000 Rave Flyers
It’s official: Marco Brusadelli, from Bergamo, Italy, has broken records. He just secured the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of rave and nightclub flyers, tallying up 113,012 flyers collected between 1985 and 2015. Some extras — total collection hits nearly 120,000 — weren’t counted because of technical guidelines, but the scale is still mind-blowing.
It all started back in 1991, when Marco began peeling flyers off nightclub walls across Italy, stuffing them in folders, cataloguing them by venue, genre, country — dedicating years to organizing and preserving this visual history. He turned a room in his home into an archive: a museum-for-rave art.
What makes this record shine isn’t just the number. It’s the scope: over 40,000 flyers from Italy, more than 11,000 from the UK, plus thousands more from other countries. The genres are broad — house, techno, trance, drum & bass, hardcore, EDM, Afro/cosmic — so this isn’t one small corner of rave history, it’s many corners stitched together.
Marco says he did it all not for profit but for passion — to preserve the art, the memories, the visual culture of dance music. He hopes that his archive will inspire next-gen collectors and ravers to understand where we came from: all those photocopied posters, torn flyers handed at doors, designs that captured the vibe of the underground before festivals got huge.
In a world where music is often streamed, digital, ephemeral — his collection is proof that physical artifacts still tell stories that sound alone can’t. And this Guinness title? It’s less a trophy, more a time capsule.
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