When, in 2001, Michael Glading, then MD of Sony Music New Zealand, presented the recording industry’s rare lifetime achievement award to a man with a 25-year career as a musician and songwriter, he didn’t start by announcing the artist’s name but instead read out: “Beside You, Be Mine Tonight, Language, Outlook for Thursday, Loyal, Whaling, Kingdom Come, It Dawned On Me, Guilty, Devil You Know, Slice of Heaven, Magic What She Do, Oughta Be in Love…” That list of classic Kiwi songs goes on for quite a while, so we decided to catch up with this national treasure for a virtual macchiato before he embarks on the ‘You Got Heart’ tour. And when we’d finished drinking cyber coffee with Dave, that list of songs was still going… More