“Lips like David Vine”
– Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be with Jesus
So… what do we know about David Vine?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“Lips like David Vine”
– Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be with Jesus
So… what do we know about David Vine?
OLD APPLEjack
No-one? For shame…
Mainstay of my childhood Friday and Sunday nights (Superstars and Ski Sunday) – I remember him getting very excited when plucky Brit Konrad Bartelski almost won a World Cup downhill event.
Also the original host of A Question of Sport, and stood in for David Coleman for a week or two when he was ill, at some point in the late 80s.
30 July 2014
Matt
“Here’s my favourite chat-up line: I’m a mate of David Vine” – Steve “Interesting” Davies, according to Spitting Image.
30 July 2014
paul f
I remember that Applejack! Weren’t the conditions much better earlier in the day when the crap skiers were going down, so Bartelski’s time stayed as the fastest until almost the last skier?
31 July 2014
Russell Dean
Wasn’t he also on a weird kid’s TV show named How, too, along with Jack Hargreaves and two others?
3 August 2014
jitsu_g
think you might be mixing him up with Fred Dineage there Russell
3 August 2014
Dave (or I could be Mike)
Yes, Superstars and Ski Sunday were essential parts of my childhood as well. I probably also heard his dulcet tones commentating on the Eurovision Song Contest (1974, the one that gave us ABBA), but I’m pretty sure I didn’t catch his compèring of Miss World the following year – I was only a wee nipper after all…
3 August 2014
peter mcornithologist
Vine is a demon listed in several grimoires such as the Seal of Solomon.
15 July 2021
professor Abelazar woozle
Donning the pedant’s hat, I think you mean the Key of Solomon, though I’ll leave it to others to pick over whether Vine is in the Greater or the Lesser Key. Alternativey, ask yer man Crowley if he can tear himself away from the fruit machine – I’m off to consort with imps!
15 July 2021
peter mcornithologist
Of course you are correct Abelazar,
15 July 2021
The Bullet of Escobar
More or less fronted Snooker’s glory years on the Beeb. Such a quality host, it’s sad that he’s no longer around.
18 August 2023