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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Minuit BIOGRAPHY

Minuit [minwee]. Its live. But its electronic. Its broken. But you'll sing along. Tell me if i'm wrong.

 

Hauling their indie-bastid-breakbeat action around the planet, rattling ribcages and teasing a fuzzy frenzy out of audiences, you're more likely to have seen Minuit jiggalin' hips in Berlin recently than their native New Zealand, as they toured far flung venues from St Petersburg to the Czech Republic, to storming The Crystal Method's DJ night in Los Angeles. They've played alongside Adam Freeland, Stanton Warriors, Plump DJs, Ali B, and The Chemical Brothers, crunched hi-end PAs at Berlin MotorFM festivals, Czech industrial clubs, Finnish christmas parties... It's also no small feat they were included on the 'Future Sound of...' compilation, alongside worldwide electronic heavy-hitters Bjork and DJ Krush representing New Zealand as the future sound of breaks and beats.

 

Still calling New Zealand home, Minuit are back in the country over summer to record a new album and will play with Concord Dawn and BBC DJ Zane Lowe for the Capital's NYE waterfront warehouse bash - plus at Phat '09 Festival on the night of the 1st to bring you lots of new goodies (as well as old favs, we're sure!). Following their album release in UK this year, Ruth Carr has been asked to guest on several new tracks coming out in '09. Bandmates Ryan Beehre and Paul Dodge deliver their breakbeat arsenal via shuddering basslines that make you feel you are made of steel, without losing sight of fantastic songs. So grab the chance to see firsthand what everyone else is about to find out.

 

Minuit have been getting radio play all over Europe, including XFM, 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Annie Nightingale, MotorFM in Berlin and Radio 1, Prague. Call it what you like - you'll be humming to Minuit before too long - if not moshing up the front.

DISCOGRAPHY & CREDITS

  • Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death dot com (2009, Universal Music NZ)
    Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death dot com (2009, Universal Music NZ)
    "It's an electro-pop album but rare in the fact it's made up of brilliant contrasts. It's often played out on the dancefloor, then the couch, and then in some sort of debauched play room, like on Long Live Zero with its unhinged industrial beats and chaos. Find Me ... finds the band at their inventive best while still focused on the dancefloor and tickling the pop sensibilities of their roots." NZ Herald
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  • The Guards Themselves (2006, Tardus Music)
    The Guards Themselves (2006, Tardus Music)

    "Minuit will do what The Crystal Method and Nubreed did for their countries... Put New Zealand firmly on the dance scenes map." Jay Cunning, Kiss FM

     

     

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  • The 88 (2003, Tardus Music)
    The 88 (2003, Tardus Music)

    "Arguably one of the most exciting acts ever to float north of the long white cloud." InLondon Magazine, UK

     

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