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
Bang Bang Eche

Bang Bang Eche

Most teenagers in an unsigned band never get to do a fraction of what Bang Bang Eche has done with just an EP and combustible live show. Coming from a town so remote that tours of Antarctica leave from it, these Kiwi teens have gladly spent most of their career away from home. This highly driven band has circumnavigated the world twice in the last year, supporting their self-titled, self-released, debut EP. Bang Bang Eche's unrelenting ambition is most evident in a live show that has decimated parties in underground bunkers, warehouses and outdoor festivals around the globe.

Frontman Zach Doney is the catalyst for their brilliant live show, launching his small body over obstacles & crowds. Behind the rapid delivery and havoc-wrecking gesticulation of the lead vocalist is the group mastermind; bassist T'Nealle Worsley. A living lesson in efficiency, an acclaimed "blogguer" & subtle fashionista, T'Nealle's artistic genius has lead the NZ press to dub her "the nation's answer to Karen O." Guitarist Charlie Ryder has the gifted grace of a five-fingered hummingbird (often swapping instruments mid-song) and the constant four-over-four that fuels the band is driven by former radio personality James Sullivan, who randomly finds himself disrobed halfway through a set yet never remembers how it happened.

As busy as they've been, these young New Zealanders have still found the time to complete their second release, the four-song Sonic Death Cuntttt EP. Written on tour between '08 & '09, it transforms the brutality of the quartet's live show into audio goodness. Lead song "Fist Full Of Dollars" was immediately hailed Song Of The Day by NME.com & Seattle's legendary KEXP and follows the self-titled EP's success, which had "4 To The Floor" debut at No. 1 on the US commercial alternative specialty show chart and break the Top 50 on CMJ's college radio chart. Closer to home, the band are consistently championed by Australia's Triple J and have enjoyed several No. 1 songs on New Zealand radio.

30Apr2010
Bang Bang Eche one of the 'Best 25 New Bands in The World'
Bang Bang Eche one of the 'Best 25 New Bands in The World'

BANG BANG ECHE ONE OF THE 'BEST 25 NEW BANDS IN THE WORLD'

Native Tongue new kids, Bang Bang Eche have been nominated by MTV Iggy as one of the 'Best 25 New Bands in The World'.

 

Please show your support and vote for Bang Bang Eche!

08Apr2010
NATIVE TONGUE GET BANG BANG
NATIVE TONGUE GET BANG BANG

Native Tongue is pleased to welcome young electro-rockers Bang Bang Eche to the family. After touring the US and UK supporting Har Mar Superstar, the band played 10 shows during SXSW where Rolling Stone summed up their live show perfectly, "A 15-minute set from impossibly young kiwi synth-garage punx, walking line between savage, spasmodic and huggable."

"Here at Bang Bang Eche, we only sign deals with the sexiest motherfuckers in the business. So when we were on the lookout for a publishing deal, we made sure that we got the hottest babes around to sell our shit to the real big companies & stuff. Native Tongue are those sexy babes, and together, we're gonna make mad fucking bank like when JT made that McDonalds jingle." – Bang Bang Eche