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
Surf City

Surf City

New York’s Oh My Rockness magazine wrote at the end of 2009 “New Zealand's Surf City are getting such big buzz that the hype has made its way halfway around the world”.  Fast forward to 2011 and a hugely successful album release and a US tour have cemented their highly-coveted status as the inheritors and re-inventors of the Dunedin Sound torch.

After naming themselves after a Jesus and Mary Chain B-side and showcasing their 1980s-styled, fuzzed-out rock around house parties and underground bars alike, Surf City released their debut EP in 2007.  This EP earned international recognition as an exciting new twist on classic influences such as The Clean, The Bats and of course the aforementioned Jesus and Mary Chain.  Very quickly, they found themselves earning opening slots for Interpol, Dinosaur Jnr and Battles and becoming one of the most-played new acts on college radio throughout the US in 2009.

Hot on the heels of this success, Surf City played six blistering shows at New York’s CMJ Showcase, sharing the stage with equally exciting new acts Best Coast, Surfer Blood and Let’s Wrestle, among others.

This brief taste of the USA wasn’t enough for the band, so they headed back in March 2010, touring both coasts and playing seven gigs in three days at SXSW in Austin.  Given their pick of record labels, they signed a US deal with Fire Records, motivated by their enthusiasm and commitment to making the band their number one priority. Popfrenzy took the honours of releasing their upcoming album within Australia.

Such immediate success has seen other bands cave under the pressure, but Surf City rose to the occasion upon delivering their first full-length album in 2010.  Between all this touring the band came up trumps with an excellent longplayer. It is called Kudos. The album was recorded over the course of a year and a half mostly in bedrooms, basements and occasionally the old Arch Hill studios. Mostly it was recorded and mixed by themselves.

Kudos was met with even more international acclaim than the EP, with Magnet Magazine (USA) reporting “we are thrilled to add Surf City to the list of Kiwi bands we love”.  Pitchfork gave the album a 7.7/10 rating, with Stereogum also lauding the upcoming release.

Surf City are now on their third visit to the USA, with over 30 cross country dates seeing them bring their innovative spin on a nostalgic sound to new and established audiences alike.

15Sep2010
Surf City 'Kudos' - RRR Album Of The Week
<em>Surf City</em> 'Kudos' - RRR Album Of The Week

On the back of some scintillating Australian shows, Surf City's album 'Kudos' is the esteemd RRR's album of the week!

The debut album from New Zealand's Surf City is a dynamic collection of guitar rock and pop music, filled with well crafted, memorable hooks. The band's distinctive music is influenced by New Zealand's rich post-punk past, and informed by an all-encompassing love of post-punk and lo-fi garage sounds.

09Aug2010
SURF CITY'S DEBUT ALBUM — AUSTRALIAN LAUNCHES
SURF CITY'S DEBUT ALBUM — AUSTRALIAN LAUNCHES

"New Zealand's Surf City are getting such big buzz that the hype has made its way halfway around the world." New York's Oh My Rockness

New Zealand's Surf City returns to Australia to support the release of their debut album Kudos (out on Popfrenzy on September 3rd).

Three years in the making Kudos features eleven tracks filled with warm, fuzzed up and frenetic guitar pop. It's a sound pioneered by fellow Kiwi bands like The Clean and The Bats in the early 1980's, but Surf City have moved the sound forward into the new millennium.

The album was recorded and mixed by the band themselves over the last year and a half mostly in bedrooms, basements and various studios.

Having already shared the stage with Interpol, MGMT, Dinosaur Jr, Battles as well as playing at the Big Day Out and Laneway Festival, Surf City are back in Australia better and louder than ever.

Saturday, September 4
Frankly! Festival, Brisbane (QLD)
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

Wednesday, September 8
Beach Road Hotel, Sydney (NSW)

Friday, September 10
Spectrum, Sydney (NSW)
Tickets at the door

Saturday, September 11
Workers Club, Melbourne (VIC)
Tickets at the door

Surf City's debut album Kudos is out on September 3rd.