I think the miss wet t shirts etc started in the early 80s at the Lido , long since gone unfortunately .
Can remember walking along the prom one evening in the early 80s maybe around 84 , before all the organised stunts etc after being to the pub & the police had to shut the prom from Broadway to Bushys ( which was Zhivagos then ) because there where guys going up & down on the back wheel , doing burnouts etc , all illegal of course , but great fun , agreat crowd of people gathered & this went on for ages .
A testament to the lpocal polices tolerance here when no one was arrested .
I can also remember when DJing at Bushys in 90 / 91 , when the bar was still in the buliding & people started to crowd the pavements outside originally .
That was when Gary Rothwell used to appear out of the side streets in Douglas come do a burn out till he blew his tyre , then dissapear into the night like some superhero .
personally i thought it was all better when it was unorganised & sporadic , you just did not know what to expect next .
Think the entertainment down there has become very stale , but suppose it is hard to think of other things to keep the hordes happy .
Shaun