Native Tongue Music Publishing

Native Tongue Music Publishing
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 one of the only publishers 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.

CONTACT DETAILS

Australia
+61 3 9445 0500

PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

Chris Gough - Managing Director
chris@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
+64 9 378 9667

Po Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

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


United Kingdom

Jaime Gough - International Manager
jaime@nativetongue.com.au
Cut Off Your Hands

Cut Off Your Hands

"Like the Stooges playing Strokes songs and hailing from Auckland, New Zealand.” NME

Cut Off Your Hands are New Zealand's best. Better than their apples and sheep and cheeses and wine. Yes, even better than the All Blacks.

Their debut LP, You and I, came out in late 2008 on Speak n Spell and in 2009 through French Kiss in the United States. They tour hard and play harder. You will know them from their hits 'Happy As Can Be', 'Oh Girl', 'Still Fond, 'Expectations' and 'You and I'.

12Oct2009
Cut Off Your Hands are happy as can be to be part of FIFA 10 game!

Cut Off Your Hands are happy as can be to be part of FIFA 10 game!

Cut Off Your Hands' Happy As Can Be features in the EA Sports FIFA 10 game, which has recently been announced as the highest selling sports game ever with over 1.7 million copies sold through European retail in its first week.

22Sep2009
Cut Off Your Hands announce Australian tour dates
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Cut Off Your Hands announce Australian tour dates

Cut Off Your Hands have been announced as the main support on the Midnight Juggernauts tour of Australia — exciting news as the band haven't been in Australia since the Laneway Festival.

 

Cut Off Your Hands are currently working on their follow up to the 'You and I' debut album of 2008.

31Jul2009
Cut Off Your Hands Garage Band chat
Cut Off Your Hands Garage Band chat

Cut Off Your Hands talk about the recording process, the sound of the band, the live scene and breaking bones.

 

Garage Band chat HERE

27Jun2008
Cut Off Your Hands Return To The Southern Hemisphere
Cut Off Your Hands Return To The Southern Hemisphere

 

Cut Off Your Hands have announced their first Australian / NZ tour since heading overseas to record their debut album, touring with the likes of Foals, Black Kids and We Are Scientists.

 

Make sure you get your ticket, these shows will sell out. See them on their headline shows

or playing with The Wombats.

 

WEDNSEDAY 23 JULY - KINGS ARMS (AUCKLAND, NZ)

 

THURSDAY 24 JULY - ROCKET BAR (ADELAIDE, SA)

 

FRIDAY 25 JULY - CORNER HOTEL (MELBOURNE, VIC)

 

SATURDAY 26 JULY - TRANSIT (CANBERRA, ACT)

 

SUNDAY 27 JULY - OXFORD ARTS FACTORY (Sydney, NSW)

 

FRIDAY 1 AUGUST - AMPLIFIER (PERTH. WA)

 

SATURDAY 2 AUGUST - CAPITOL W/ WOMBATS (PERTH, WA)

 

TUESDAY 5 AUGUST - ENMORE W/ WOMBATS (SYDNEY, NSW)

 

WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST - HI-FI BAR - W/ WOMBATS (MELBOURNE, VIC) (Under 18s Matinee)

 

WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST - Hi Fi Bar - W/ WOMBATS (MELBOURNE, VIC) (18+)