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.

image

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

Contact Form

Native Tongue does not give feedback on unsolicited demos or unsolicited material.



Barnaby Weir BIOGRAPHY

Barnaby Weir is the singer, songwriter and guitarist with popular New Zealand dub, funk and reggae group The Black Seeds along with his solo project Flash Harry and NZ collective Fly My Pretties

DISCOGRAPHY & CREDITS

  • The Black Seeds
    The Black Seeds
    Complete Discography (Click here)
  • Fly My Pretties | The Return Of... (2006, LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa)
    Fly My Pretties | The Return Of... (2006, LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa)

    "The Return of Fly My Pretties is a superb presentation of some of the finest musical talent in this country."

    - JACK Magazine

     

    "...this is a testament to the unstoppable force that is the Wellington music scene right now."

    - JET Magazine

    Buy Physical CD Buy on iTunes
  • Fly My Pretties | Live At Bats (2004, LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa)
    Fly My Pretties | Live At Bats (2004, LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa)

    Fly My Pretties is an incredible multimedia concept assembled by Black Seeds front man Barnaby Weir, along with the good people at Loop Recordings. Fly My Pretties is not a band rather a collection of Wellington's finest contemporary musicians collaborating on songs written by Barnaby Weir, Age Pryor and Samuel Flynn Scott.

    A remarkable concept album with numerous dimensions, 'Fly My Pretties' is an amazing musical achievement with a dream NZ cast consisting of members of the Black Seeds, Fat Freddy's Drop, Phoenix Foundation and Paseload.

    Buy Physical CD
  • Flash Harry (2002, Capital Recordings)
    Flash Harry (2002, Capital Recordings)
    Flash Harry has many different elements. It is not genre specific, and therefore hard to pigeon hole. It has funk and electro, but also rock and dub flavours. It's slick, but raw too. It's surprising, certainly not what you'd expect. Some of the tracks have a certain radio shine while others will be like a bull in your china shop for some listeners. What is it?...is it dance? dub? rock? pop?... who cares where you think it fits. It just does. It is Flash Harry.
    Buy Physical CD