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
Lindon Puffin

Lindon Puffin

Lyttelton based NZ musician Lindon Puffin first rose to national prominence in the late 90's as frontman & songwriter of glam rock group 'The Puffins'. Touted by their parents as the next big thing, The Puffin's toured relentlessly, receiving widespread student radio play, eventually topping the charts with a Roxy Music-esqe single called 'Lighthouse' before the group evaporated, leaving Lindon to take up a job as the RDU 98.5fm breakfast show host in 2000.

A couple of years later Puffin returned to the stage as a solo folk-punk act supporting international artists such as Tenacious D and Billy Bragg. He has released two solo albums to date, the last of which reached no. 22 in the NZ charts. He's twice been awarded 'Live Act Of The Year' (04 & 07) and in 2005 he produced a hilarious feature length music-touring movie called 'Figure 8000' that screened extensively on both NZ Music TV, Rialto Cinema's and Sky TV's Documentary Channel.

2008 saw him undertake a comprehensive world tour of 12 countries & 36 cities cementing his reputation as one of NZ's hardest working independent self managed musicians.

Late last year, Lindon returned to the studio with highly respected producer Wayne Bell and an unassuming ensemble of single malt musicians to record his third album entitled 'Hope Holiday' due for release 14th November 2011.

Puffin has just finished a highly successful fundraising tour of NZ as a member of Lyttelton music folk collective The Harbour Union featuring Delaney Davidson and members of The Unfaithful Ways and The Eastern. They performed at this year's Silver Scrolls and their self-titled album recently reached no. 18 in the charts with all proceeds going to charity

 

www.lindonpuffin.bandcamp.com