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Liverpool is home to a record breaking nightclub. Emma Johnson learns more about it

WITH clubs, as with so many things in life, the assumption is bigger is better. More space equals more people equals more money.

Not so at Rumours. At Rumours good things come in very small packages.

And it has paid off because this week the 80s-themed portable disco which is just 2.10 m (6 ft 8 in) high, 1.17 m (3 ft 10 in) wide and 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) deep entered the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Smallest Nightclub.

Deborah Borrett, who created Rumours with her pal Lisa Williams (Lisa has now left the venture), is delighted with the accolade.

“I’m ecstatic,” the 31-year-old says. “I always wanted to have the world’s smallest nightclub. We put so much hard work into it and have waited so long to hear whether we had made it.”

Deborah and Lisa created Rumours four years ago in Deborah’s kitchen, transforming it into a glitter-fuelled homage to the decade that brought us leg warmers, Ferris Bueller and Footloose.

Its first public outing came when they gatecrashed the disabled toilet at the Picket in Liverpool and transformed it into a disco much to the bemusement of the owner.

Pop-up Rumours discos followed backstage at Chibuku and Circus in Liverpool, with Yousef falling in love with the idea – not to mention its creator. Deborah and the Crosby-born DJ are all set to get married next year – and the tiny club’s fanbase just got bigger and bigger with Mixmag, DJ Sneak and Alex Zane all championing it.

It has popped up at clubs around the world including Space and Circo Loco in Ibiza and at festivals such as Creamfields, V and the Isle of Wight.

“In the early days we took over backstage places like the dressing room at Cream or cupboards but now we have a flat pack structure,” Deborah explains.

“We get between eight and 10 people in there. At festivals people come in for one song and then a fresh crowd comes in. At backstage parties though we can have the same people in there all night.”

The record-breaking Rumours was staged in Liverpool in September last year as part of the Bold Street Festival with Circus resident Scott Lewis on DJ duty and the club decked out with its 80s décor and smoke machine. It even had its own doorman, Danny.

For it to all be above board and official the team had to offer witness statements as well as video and photographic evidence and even submit a structural report.

“The record was previously held by a club called the Miniscule of Sound,” says Deborah. “We smashed it by 34cm². In the world of miniature clubs that’s a whole person on the dance floor!

“People are always asking us to make it bigger,” Deborah adds. “That is not going to happen.”

The next Rumours takes place at the Sink on Berry Street on Friday July 1. Entry is free.