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
Street Chant

Street Chant

Street Chant could easily have never existed. Emily was a teenage binge drinker who couldn’t stop going to Eden’s Bar on K’ Rd in Auckland, New Zealand, even though half the bands which played there made her sick. She was straight out of high school, and had this infernal itch telling her she could be on that stage too. Billie Rogers wasn’t much better. She played in a band she hated and wanted nothing more than to be in a band with Emily. Every time they ran into each other – which was every Friday, more or less – they would promise that they’d get together and jam.

One day, quite unexpectedly, it actually happened. Only right away, Emily realized that she wasn’t much into jamming. The band were taught and direct, with little tolerance for the slovenliness which characterized much underground music then and now. So while the band went from fever dream to reality, thanks to the addition of Mikey Sperring, then of Don Julio and the Hispanic Mechanic, Emily spent a focused month writing the six songs she figured constituted a set.

Since then the band has played/toured New Zealand with their spiritual antecedents The 3Ds, The Clean, Black Lips, The Fall and were hand-picked to play around Australia with The Dead Weather. In New Zealand the album surprised everyone by going into the local album charts at number 30 and they also won a local music award called “The Critics Choice”.

In October 2010 Street Chant traveled to CMJ where they played a handful of shows with acts such as The Crystal Stilts and The Mad Scene. The New York Examiner picked Street Chant as one of the top bands to see at CMJ Brooklyn Vegan took a bunch of photos and called Street Chant "the darlings of the night" and The C-Ville News listed Street Chant among the top five bands they saw at CMJ, saying they were "perhaps the best band that I saw all weekend"