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

Ph +61 3 9445 0500

PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

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

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

Daniel Younger - Creative Manager
daniel@nativetongue.com.au

Gaylene Williams - Copyright & Royalties Manager
copyright@nativetongue.com.au

Natalie Bell - Licensing & Admin Assistant
natalie@nativetongue.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

Ph +64 9 378 9667

PO Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

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

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The Veils BIOGRAPHY

The Veils are Finn Andrews (vocals, guitar, piano), Sophia Burn (bass), Dan Raishbrook (guitar, odd noise) and Henning Dietz (drums). Sun Gangs is their third album, and without a doubt their finest to date.

Finn's father Barry Andrews was a founding member of the highly influential group XTC in the late 1970s, later going on to tour with the likes of Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. In younger days in Auckland, thousands of miles away from his father, Finn sang at a folk club up a volcano and sidelined a desire to paint when he began hearing musicians like Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan - contemplating that there was perhaps more to life than the bleeping Eighties electronica and early days of New Wave which had surrounded his first London foray.


The Veils' latest album Sun Gangs has brought Finn's early influences full circle and created a record that truly lives up to the huge promise and talent that they have always exhibited.

DISCOGRAPHY & CREDITS

  • Sun Gangs (2009, Remote Control/Rough Trade)
    Sun Gangs (2009, Remote Control/Rough Trade)

    By turns epic, desolate, wildly romantic and anguished, Sun Gangs is a bold and distinctive record described by lead vocalist Finn as "a very modern mixture of prayers, love letters and personal record keeping".

     

    Produced by Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker / British Sea Power / Bark Psychosis) it is their most ambitious record yet, ranging from the yearning elegy of Sit Down By The Fire, to the charred, mantis-like groove of Killed By The Boom - this is a record unlike many we are likely to hear this year.

     

    "I really wanted to write something that hangs together in perhaps a not so obvious way; not just some collection of singles but a real voyage into something - something strange and unspecific but totally emotionally consuming."

     

    In Sun Gangs, The Veils have brought Finn's early influences full circle and created a record that truly lives up to the huge promise and talent that they have always exhibited.


    Sun Gangs is due out April 4th through Remote Control/Rough Trade.

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  • Nux Vomica (2006, Rough Trade)
    Nux Vomica (2006, Rough Trade)
    "Perhaps it was the new musicians, perhaps it was just Andrews' inevitable maturation, but Nux Vomica represents a huge progression for the Veils. Andrews has certainly grown as a songwriter; his lyrics, while still as affected as before, have gained a certain poeticism that reflects a growing understanding of the world around him, one that looks beyond the personal and into the greater human experience." allmusic.com

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  • The Runway Found (2004, Rough Trade)
    The Runway Found (2004, Rough Trade)
    "Runaway Found is quite a classy thing. Check the evocative, selenium-toned cover art, or even its Rough Trade imprint if that's your game. Runaway Found illuminates, with equal patience, the hovering dust particles in the spacious "Talk Down the Girl" and the hopeful guitar bends of the upbeat "Guiding Light"." Pitchfork

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