New Year 2021 Honours: Dave Dobbyn's slices of heaven rewarded with knighthood 30 Dec, 2020 08:00 PM 5 minutes to read The words and tunes of Dave Dobbyn - now Sir Dave - are woven indelibly into New Zealand society. Photo / File David Joseph Dobbyn, ONZM. For services to music. Songwriter Dave Dobbyn reckons he's at a loss for words. It's not glamour at Rhythm and Vines or the frantic rockstar lifestyle that has him stumped. He's just arrived from a motel by van, he's sober and, barely an hour before he's due to play, he chats on the phone from a house near the Gisborne festival stage.