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
The Topp Twins

The Topp Twins

The Topp Twins are New Zealand's well-loved musical and comic duo. Twin sisters with their own primetime TV Series they are truly original entertainers and one of the few NZ acts which can undoubtedly be called a cultural institution. Their popularity has spread around the world - tours to Britain, North America and Australia have met with exceptional reviews and attracted a strong and diverse audience.

The Topp Twins have built a successful performance career based on extraordinary diversity - they write and perform seriously good original country / acoustic music and they also have a cast of comedy characters which feature in their television and theatre shows. Their unique blend of original music, comedy, yodelling and audience participation means the Topp Twins deliver a total entertainment experience unlike any other act. From music festivals and clubs, to theatres and TV shows the Topp Twins top the bill.

06Jul2010
THE TOPP TWINS — FRAMELINE AUDIENCE AWARD
THE TOPP TWINS — FRAMELINE AUDIENCE AWARD

THE TOPP TWINS — FRAMELINE AUDIENCE AWARD

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has won the Audience Award for Documentary at the 34th Frameline Film Festival Awards in San Francisco.

 

Frameline is the US' premier festival of GLBT, with more than 200 films screening at venues in San Francisco and Berkeley over 11 days.

 

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has been described as 'more fun than a possum up your trousers!'

08Feb2010
The Topp Twins to play with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
The Topp Twins to play with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

THE TOPP TWINS TO PLAY WITH THE AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

One of the most recognised figures in New Zealand, the Topp Twins are uniquely kiwi entertainers - multi-talented, spontaneous, heartfelt, cheeky, irreverent and exuberant people whose mixture of song, comedy, character and standup has taken them from busking on Queen Street all the way to headlining the Toronto Film Festival.

 

Spend a night of uproarious laughter set to music, as the Topp Twins and the APO perform classical interludes and showpieces, yodelling, and kiwi anthems with hilarious characters straight from the heart of New Zealand and see what made Jools and Lynda Topp New Zealand's most loved Untouchable Girls.

 

For ticket information click here.

28Sep2009
TOPP TWINS DOCO TRIUMPHS AT TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
TOPP TWINS DOCO TRIUMPHS AT TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Congratulations to Native Tongue writers the Topp Twins for gaining another accolade for their hit documentary 'Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls'.

 

After scooping up prizes at this year's Qantas Film and TV and WIFT Awards, the Topp Twins documentary has just won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

20Jul2009
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls Documentary in MIFF 2009
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls Documentary in MIFF 2009

Twin sisters Jools and Lynda Topp are a New Zealand institution. A country singing and yodelling lesbian comedy act, they seem unlikely candidates for mainstream acceptance - but the last few decades has seen the Topps become a key feature in New Zealand's political landscape, via their particular brand of irreverent musical activism. What at first glace appears to be yet another celebrity biopic soon reveals itself as much more: an engrossing potted history of a nation struggling through 25 years of seismic social change, as told through the involvement of the irrepressible Topp twins.

 

The documentary's opening weekend in New Zealnd, saw all previous box office records for best opening day and best opening weekend broken!

"More fun than a possum up your trousers." Sydney Morning Herald

 

The film is showing at ACMI on 31st July and 8th August. More information about sessions / bookings:

http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/films?y=2009&category=Documentaries&film_id=12304&pg=21

23Apr2009
Native Tongue signs Untouchable Girls
Native Tongue signs Untouchable Girls

Native Tongue are proud to announce the signing of New Zealand's national treasures the Topp Twins - aka identical twin sisters Lynda and Jools Topp. For 25 years the Topp Twins have performed as a country-music comedy duo with massive cross over appeal through top rating TV series, live performances and numerous successful album releases. The albums include 'Two Timing', 'Grass Highway' and 'Flowergirls and Cowgirls'. In 2008, The Topp Twins were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.

 

The Topp Twins toured Australia and New Zealand in early 2009, and have since released their documentary 'Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls' across New Zealand. The uplifting nature of Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has seen audiences and media across the country fall in love with this unique story - the film opening broke all previous records for a documentary release in New Zealand.

 

Watch the movie trailer here:

 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSDaOscM_I

For more information about the Topp Twins please check their writers page.