A sell-out crowd set a record at the Illuminate Paint Party in Dunedin last night.
Most of the 5000 at the party at Forsyth Barr Stadium dressed in white and waited for four tonnes of pink, green and orange UV paint to be unleashed.
Student Jerome Cousins (22) said he wore a white towelling bathrobe to the party for its warmth because it was ''quite freezing''.
The crowd grew and starting surging as they waited for their multicolour moment.
The aptly titled song Bonkers, by rapper Dizzee Rascal, blasted out through the speakers.
People started falling over on the crowded dance floor but were smiling when picked up.
The music mix of heavy bass beats slowly stirred the white-clad revellers to ''illumination'' time when the paint was sprayed from scaffolding on three sides.
The crowd was transformed from a massive test match cricket team to the love children of the Incredible Hulk and Cyndi Lauper.
Guinness world record adjudicator Chris Sheedy, of Canberra, said 4000 people needed to be painted to set a world record for the most people covered in paint simultaneously.
Eighty official witnesses were scattered around the stadium counting participants, he said.
Event organiser Jamie Templeton, of Wellington, said the stadium was an awesome venue.
''We look forward to coming back.''
OUSA event manager Dan Hendra said the party was the biggest for the OUSA since Macklemore in February.
St John operations team manager Doug Third said by the time the paint was sprayed, more than 30 people had been treated by St John staff and four had been taken to hospital.
The intoxication levels of revellers was worse than the Hyde St keg party, which was disappointing, Mr Third said.
