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
Ned Collette

Ned Collette

We live in a world of just-add-water rock stars, where pastiche is mistaken for progression. Quite obviously invisible but powerful forces manipulate the back end of just about everything to give the mistaken impression that we are discovering new sounds for ourselves, when in fact we are fed from a very long corporate-branded spoon. (And no, we are not being paranoid here - we all know it happens and the media quietly turn a blind eye and report without digging any deeper).

In spite of all this, Ned Collette has taken the quiet back road to a place some distance out from obscurity, heading at his own speed for a destination of his own choosing.

That chosen road is without doubt a leafy and sun dappled one, and that destination pastoral and perhaps even a little bucolic. Ned may hint at a past age of music but he moves everything defiantly forward with his elaborate arrangements, slow building melodies, gradually revealed hooks, looped and layered guitar parts and optimistic yet world weary lyrics. And while everyone else seems to be shouting, Ned is singing.

28Sep2009
NED COLLETTE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM & TOUR DATES
NED COLLETTE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM & TOUR DATES

Over The Stones, Under The Stars by Ned Collette is due for release on October 23rd, in Australia and New Zealand,

on Dot Dash.

It is Ned Collette's first album recorded entirely with a band. The band is called Wirewalker.

 

Ned Collette and Wirewalker have tour dates for November.

 

Fri 13th Nov – Adelaide*, Metro.
Fri 20th Nov – Bateman's Bay, North St Bar.
Sat 21st Nov – Sydney, Raval. Tickets on sale now here.

Fri 27th Nov – Melbourne, Northcote Social Club. Tickets on sale now here or (03) 9486 1677.
Sat 28th Nov – Hobart, Alley Cat.


All shows with Teeth & Tongue except * with Laura Jean.

24Apr2008
Ned Collette gets shot by Shoot The Player Again
Ned Collette gets shot by Shoot The Player Again

Watch Ned perform Laughter Across The Street for Shoot The Player in the back streets of Petersham in Sydney here.

 

 

07Mar2008
Ned Collette plays The Country With A Smile for Shoot The Player
<em>Ned Collette</em> plays The Country With A Smile for Shoot The Player

Ned was shot playing The Country with A Smile with with Ben Bourke and Joe Taliaby by Shoot The Player.

Check it out here.

16Jan2008
Ned Collette’s favourite albums for 2007
<em>Ned Collette’s</em> favourite albums for 2007

Ned sat down recently to pick his favourite albums of 2007 and some other albums that he is listening to.

Favourite albums of 2007:

Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexions (Domino)
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me (FatCat)
Tren Brothers / Mick Turner - Blue Trees (Remote Control)
Supersilent 8 (Rune Grammofon)
Andras Schiff - Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas (ECM)
Pikelet - Pikelet (Chapter)
Francis Plagne - Francis Plagne (Synaesthesia / Mistletone)
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (XL/Remote Control)
Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute)
Bachelorette - Isolation Loops (Mistletone)
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II (Reprise)
The Smallgoods - Down On The Farm (Lost & Lonesome)


Favourite reissues from 2007:

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time (Light In The Attic)
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Domino)
Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth (Geffen)
Annie Briggs - The Time Has Come (Water)


Things I'm just digging now:

John Fahey - John Fahey (Revenant)
Nam June Paik - Works 1958.1979 (Sub Rosa)
Luciano Cilio - Dell' Universo Assente (Die Schachtel)
The Sea & Cake - Oui (Spunk)
Neil Young - After The Goldrush (Reprise)
Can't Stop It II - Australian Post Punk 1978-84 (Chapter)
Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - Clube Da Esquina (Hemisphere)
Citay - Little Kingdom (Dead Oceans)
Attilio Mineo Conducts 'Man In Space With Sounds' (Subliminal Sounds)
Dirty Projectors (Dead Oceans)

15Mar2007
Ned Collette opening for Joanna Newsom in Europe
Ned Collette opening for Joanna Newsom in Europe
Ned Collette has been hand-picked by Joanna Newsom to open for her on four upcoming European Dates in April.

April 14th Dublin, Olympia
April 16th Paris, La Cigale
April 17th Cologne, Gloria
April 18th Brussels, AB

Read more about Ned Collette

05Dec2006
Ned Collette covers TV On The Radio's "Hours"
Ned Collette covers TV On The Radio's
Ned's version of TV On The Radio's "Hours" was commissioned in 2006 by cokemachineglow.com for their inaugural Fantasy Covers Podcast.
You can hear it here, there or purchase it properly mastered as a single (with exclusive B-side) from iTunes.