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 the only publisher 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.

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AUSTRALIA

NATIVE TONGUE MUSIC PUBLISHING
PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

Ph +61 3 9445 0500
Fax +61 3 9445 0502

Chris Gough - Managing Director
chris@nativetongue.com.au

Jaime Gough - Creative Manager
jaime@nativetongue.com.au

Daniel Younger - Copyright & Royalties Manager
daniel@nativetongue.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

NATIVE TONGUE MUSIC PUBLISHING
PO Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

Ph +64 9 378 9667
Fax +64 9 376 7198

Savina Kim - Creative Manager
savina@nativetongue.co.nz

Miriam Smith - Administration Manager
miriam@nativetongue.co.nz

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Plastic Palace Alice BIOGRAPHY

Melbourne's Plastic Palace Alice is something of an anomaly in Australia's independent music scene. The scope of the group's music is large. Incorporating 60s inspired pop, twisted glam, German cabaret, pastoral folk, and the rhythm-heavy stomp of New York in the late 70s, the musical soundbed is combined with a colourful, emotional, and almost ambiguous lyricism. In a scene where most artists either choose to plunder the refined sound of one particular act or period, or alternatively ignore the musical past altogether under the guise of 'authenticity', Plastic Palace Alice's music is defiantly heterogeneous.

 

The group's debut album, The Great Depression, released in 2008 to rave (though often confused) reviews, contains 12 songs that span a wide range of influences and sounds. From the Bowie-esque opener 'Empire Falls' (a triple j favourite in 2007) to the soulful Dusty In Memphis drawl of 'Well', the songs on the album are windows into the diverse music of the last century. Plastic Palace Alice is currently recording some singles.

 

Rob McDowell is the songwriter and musical brainchild behind Plastic Palace Alice. He has also started a top secret new project with Jonathan Burnside (who produced The Great Depression, and was responsible for producing The Sleepy Jackson and The Melvins among many others), the fruits of which are currently being readied for consumption.

DISCOGRAPHY & CREDITS

  • The Great Depression (2007, Shiny Records / Inertia)
    The Great Depression (2007, Shiny Records / Inertia)

    Plastic Palace Alice are promising - and promising, and promising - to be one of this country's truly great bands. The six member baroque pop outfit came together just over two years ago, and had barely taken a breath before they began to record their first album. Now, some months, some media attention and some serious label interest later, they have finally released it. Welcome to The Great Depression.  -Simone Ubaldi, Beat Magazine

     

    Featuring Beat's Best Single of 2007, Empire Falls.

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