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
Kirsten Morrell

Kirsten Morrell

The condensation shimmers on the leaves outside the basement rehearsal space. It's a cool spring night. A roller door reveals a compact space packed with cables, amps and speakers. In the centre of this cave-like atmosphere a beautiful red-haired girl directs the players as they assemble. The guitarist conjures up a purring, rolling note from his vintage amp that immediately wins a smile of approval from the diva.

Kirsten Morrell is knocking her live band into shape in a Vermont St rehearsal space in Ponsonby. The boys have been pouring over the tracks from her new album that she has spent the last two years producing. 12 tracks have been recorded, half in London, half here in New Zealand. Kirsten walks the band through her arrangement of Cherry (Warner Music). The bass player has retooled the bass line to rise and fall in a new and soulful way. Kirsten listens intently as they perform the verse. They check and critique each note. It's a fun way to spend a Monday night.

After 10 years writing and recording with multi-platinum band Goldenhorse Kirsten Morrell is going solo. ULTRAVIOLET is the name of the new album. All the tracks are still top secret. The mercurial Jol Mulholland has co-produced the record with Kirsten. Geoff Maddock, her Goldenhorse collaborator, is heard on a range of instruments throughout the recording. These three musicians have created something very special. The 12 songs range from synth-heavy elctro-pop to brooding, chugging laments with Kirsten's singular voice tying the whole project together.

Back in Ponsonby the band starts to thrum, the roller-door begins to rattle. Neighbours peak through curtains trying to catch a lyric. A passer by hears "Cherry Coloured Dreams / I'll be wearing smoke hot jeans..." and walks a little slower.

12Oct2009
Kirsten Morrell to perform at 'I Love The Islands' Samoa Relief Concert
Kirsten Morrell to perform at 'I Love The Islands' Samoa Relief Concert
Kirsten Morrell has been announced as playing the I Love The Islands Samoa Relief Concert that will be held at the Vector Arena in Auckland on Monday, October 19. Other performers include Neil Finn & Tim Finn, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Savage, Scribe, Hollie Smith, Elemeno P, Che-Fu & Kratez to name a few.

All businesses, personnel and artists have given their services for free, therefore 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Samoa.

Tickets go on sale October 9 from www.ticketmaster.co.nz for $25.00
09Sep2009
Kirsten Morrell unveils new filmclip for Cherry Coloured Dreams
Kirsten Morrell unveils new filmclip for Cherry Coloured Dreams

Here is a peak at the first single by Kirsten Morrell titled 'Cherry Coloured Dreams' from her fourthcoming album 'Ultraviolet'.

 

Watch the clip for 'Cherry Coloured Dreams' below of click here.