Native Tongue is an independent music publisher, with offices in Australia and New Zealand.
Besides acquiring rights to local writers, we also administer the works of overseas writers and catalogues for Australia and New Zealand.
Established in 2003, Native Tongue has built a respected catalogue of local writers. We set out to provide writers with a publishing company dedicated to assisting with the development of their skills as songwriters and composers throughout their careers.

Although we are a small company, we see this is one of our major advantages. It enables us to be far more proactive than our competitors and react quickly to the needs of our clients, whether they be film and television companies, commercial advertisers or the bands of which our writers are members.

We see our role as getting out there and getting things done, working with the band, the management, the record label and the distributor to make things happen.
Our job is to work with you to help you achieve your goals, as a songwriter and in many cases; an artist. We have a broad network of contacts we can utilise in all areas of the business – record companies, distributors, booking agents, promoters, publicists, radio, etc.

We will work with you, your management and record distributor to maximise sales of your record. You probably have most bases covered but there will always be something we can do to help squeeze those extra sales. It may be that we help a band get on a festival bill, provide advice on obtaining touring grants or come up with that song opportunity in a film that breaks through at the box office – who knows – it's an ephemeral business and its not always easy pinning down where things will come from.

If you are looking to place songs with other artists we have a worldwide network of contacts who work songs on that basis. If you want to co-write we will work with you to develop connections with writers you want to work with. If you want to compose film or television scores we are ideally placed to help you realise these ambitions.
We get out there and do the hard yards wherever it is required.
We have over the years developed publishing relationships internationally and through our music supervision business have come to know those companies who work particularly hard gaining sync licenses and pursuing the ancillary income that is available around the world. We have also established a network of international sub-publishers to administer our works around the world. In each case our sub-publishers are established independents with a long term track record of working within their own territory.

Native Tongue also enjoys strong relationships with all the major US, UK, Canadian and European music supervisors and can submit clients works for use in a wide range of projects around the world.

We are also the only publisher with offices and staff on the ground in Australia and New Zealand enabling us to fully represent your copyrights in the key markets in our home territory.
Native Tongue is closely associated with Mana Music, which is the major music supervisor for feature films, television series, and documentaries in Australia and New Zealand. As a result Native Tongue is in a strong position to place its writer's songs in the wide range of projects.

A similar situation applies in respect to television commercials where once again Mana Music is the major provider of licensing services to the advertising agencies.

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AUSTRALIA

Ph +61 3 9445 0500

PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

Chris Gough - Managing Director
chris@nativetongue.com.au

Jaime Gough - International Manager
jaime@nativetongue.com.au

Matt Tanner - A&R / Creative Manager
matt@nativetongue.com.au

David Nash - Copyright & Royalties Manager
david@nativetongue.com.au

Kate Mills - Licensing & Admin Assistant
kate@nativetongue.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

Ph +64 9 378 9667

PO Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

Jan Hellriegel - General Manager
jan@nativetongue.co.nz

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Plus One artists touring

09.03.2010 - Plus One artists touring

Plus One Records is proud to present two of Brisbane's finest acts teaming up live and taking their respective bands and 2009 releases on the road to find old friends and make some new ones.

 

Queensland's finest garage country rockers, Mexico City, return to the road for the first time in 2010 with a bagful of confidence and new songs in tow to continue to preach the word of their acclaimed 2009 release, Brown Bird.

 

Roz Pappalardo has been a busy woman during "women in docs" first official holiday in over a decade of touring. Her solo debut, This Lifeboat, was recently released to immediate airplay across Australia, the film clip for the album's lead single ("I Say Fall") has been aired liberally by Foxtel's Country Music Channel and has also just been nominated as a finalist in the inaugural West End Film Festival.


Live, both acts are riveting and masterful, all clearly enjoying the huge sound and unique energy they exude.

 

Friday 21 May

BON AMICIS, Margaret St TOOWOOMBA

Saturday 22 May

RICS BAR, Brunswick St Mall FORTITUDE VALLEY

Sunday 23 May

MASC LIVE ROOM (Club Envy) 19 Ocean St MAROOCHYDORE

Thursday 27 May

THE KAROVA LOUNGE, Cnr Field & Camp Sts, BALLARAT

with The Rostovs 


Friday 28 May

THE NATIONAL HOTEL, 195 Moorabool St, GEELONG

with The Rostovs


Saturday 29 May

THE BIRMINGHAM HOTEL, 333 Smith Street, FITZROY 

with The Rostovs and Film (members of Intercooler)

Sunday 30 May

PURE POP Instore Appearance, ST KILDA

All Ages and both bands performing