Tim Nelson of Cub Sport on their new album 'J at the Gay Bar' : NPR

Contents:

• J AT THE GAY BAR
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
• WHY QUEER BAND CUB SPORT DROPPED 'J AT THE GAY BAR' ON GOOD FRIDAY: 'IT ULD BE READ AS PROVOTIVE/NTROVERSIAL AND I'D BE LYG IF I SAID I DIDN'T LIKE THAT'
• TIM NELSON OF CUB SPORT ON THEIR NEW ALBUM 'J AT THE GAY BAR'
• HOW J WOULD ACT A GAY BAR?
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE ATRALIAN TOUR SUPPORT OF ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
• GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER49.7K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSGAY BAR LYRICSGIRL!I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARLET'S START A WAR, START A NUCLEAR WARAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!AT THE GAY BARNOW TELL ME DO YA, A DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEYAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYEAH! YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARSUPERSTARSUPER, SUPER, SUPERSTARYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• GAY MANCHTER

J AT THE GAY BAR

After ‘The Backwater Sermons’ me out, this poem om , ‘J at the Gay Bar’, went a b viral, so I thought I’d share some of the basic theology behd poem que obvly riffs off of the below sectn of Mark 5, drawg a parallel between the unnamed woman the passage, and queer people - more particularly, the "boy" the poem, a young LGBT man stgglg wh his queerns, and, is suggted, stgglg wh how that rencil wh his fah. J at the Gay BarBy Jay Hulme.

No matter what others tell you that you should be, remember, you are who you are bee God created you that way, whether that is gay or straight, cisgenr or transgenr, male or female, or any of the lors of the rabow, God created you that way.

It happens to be one of my favore morn gay art piec. [POEM] J at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme. How the Image of J at a Gay Bar Helped Atralian Band Cub Sport Tell Their Story.

J AT THE GAY BAR

On Friday, the group members — who clu Nelson, Netterfield, dmmer Dan Puaari, and volist/gutarist Zoe Davis — are releasg their fifth album J at the Gay Bar, an electronic- and hoe-driven LP that ptur the ups and downs of romance and relatnships.

The album is named after a powerful poem by Jay Hulme that imag J Christ as a clubgoer wh his “rob hched up to His kne to make easy to sp, ” who reassur a gay man at the bar that “nothg this heart of yours ever needs to be healed. The poem’s msage was a great fort to Nelson and Netterfield, who both grew up as members of a Pentestal church wh “super nservative, very homophobic teachgs. Speakg om his at-home stud Atralia, Nelson broke down five key songs off J at the Gay Bar and explaed how the album celebrat showg your tt self to the world.

HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY

J at the Gay Bar (by Jay Hulme)He’s here the midst of –right at the centre of the dance floor, rob hched up to His kneto make easy to some pot the evenga boy will touch the hem of His robeand beg to be healed, beg to beanythg other than this’And He will reach His arm out, sweat-damp, weary om ’ll cup this boy’s face His handand say, my betiful childthere is nothg this heart of yoursthat ever needs to be healed. Image J on the dance floor a gay bar, as this poem scrib.

I love the poignant way that the poet Jay Hulme brg out this theme J at the Gay Bar (om his poetry llectn The Backwater Sermons). We know that if we have been hurt, meaned or exclud bee we are gay, trans, bee of disabily, race, social class, mental health, tn, fanc, nrodiversy or awkward personali… We stand wh J.

I’m paraphrasg: “As an ally, I want the Gay Village to glow so brightly wh rabows that n be seen om space. As I prayed about this I started to wonr, what if the Gay Village beme our place to be rooted? Everyone I spoke to got exced about the ia of Inclive Gatherg beg rooted the Gay Village, but we had no ia how would practilly happen.

WHY QUEER BAND CUB SPORT DROPPED 'J AT THE GAY BAR' ON GOOD FRIDAY: 'IT ULD BE READ AS PROVOTIVE/NTROVERSIAL AND I'D BE LYG IF I SAID I DIDN'T LIKE THAT'

After a particularly enuragg chat wh a lear Southsi, I emailed The Loft – a brilliant bar and rtrant wh meetg rooms the heart of the Gay Village – to see if we uld perhaps e one of their rooms to host a few nversatns about our next steps. It’s important to say, I thk, that jt bee we are lotg ourselv the Gay Village, this do not mean that our church is only for LGBTQIA+ people.

But wh what I know about J, I would say, the Gay Village is exactly where J would want to be. So let’s be like J, dancg gay bars wh our skirts hiked up, drippg wh sweat, cheeks flhed wh joy and wh love for the betiful people around .

The rerd, J at the Gay Bar, is named after a work by transgenr performance poet Jay Hulme, and Cub Sport sger-songwrer Tim Nelson — who has procsed much of his childhood relig trma through his mic — tells Yahoo Entertament that readg Hulme’s poem was a lightng-bolt moment for him.

TIM NELSON OF CUB SPORT ON THEIR NEW ALBUM 'J AT THE GAY BAR'

“Basilly, tells a story of J partyg at a gay bar, and there's a boy that up to J and wants to touch his robe to be healed. In a recent Instagram post featurg Hulme’s poetic words juxtaposed wh some trolls’ cel ments (albe not the ments emed particularly “serly sry and vlent”), Nelson clared: “I’m fully aware that the name and release date of our new album J at the Gay Bar uld be read as provotive/ntroversial and I’d be lyg if I said I didn’t like that.

”Here's quick look back at that path, which ultimately led to the exultant J at the Gay Bar: Soulmat/bandmat Nelson and Netterfield met at their extremely relig Pentestal Christian school 20 years ago, secretly dated durg their senr year, broke up, and then formed Cub Sport.

HOW J WOULD ACT A GAY BAR?

However, was only 2016 that they officially me out to each other, to their fay, to their fans, and to the world — when they fally procsed both the external and ternalized homophobia they’d grappled wh most of their liv, realized that they were eply love, and cid to be together. The two married 2018, shortly after gay marriage was legalized their native album the Cub Sport disgraphy — om This Is Our Vice, whose lead sgle “Come on Ms Me Up” was hdsight the still-closeted Nelson’s sperate msage to Netterfield, through 2020’s Like Nirvana, which was led by the thartic, stream-of-nsc epic “Confsns” — has chronicled the band’s journey of self-disvery. (Another member, multi-stmentalist Zoe Davis, is also gay and om a relig background, and she too me out relatively recently.

) And J at the Gay Bar is Cub Sport’s most celebratory and revelatory release yet, tly the sound of J partyg at a gay bar — the bt possible is how clearly livg his bt life: Cub Sport are about to play Los Angel’s Outloud Pri ncert wh none other than Grace Jon, for stance.

I felt like was God's cisn that beg gay was wrong, basilly, rather than realizg that 's a group of people's terpretatn of somethg that's been mis-translated however many other harmful stuff were you tght — stuff that you had to unlearn? There was a lot of homophobia, and was que misogynistic too, which was always very sry. A lot of people kd of stayed the bubble, but there were a lot of people who had to reckon wh so much shame — not jt gay people, but women beg told that if they had sex before marriage, no one's gog to want them and they're like an unwrapped prent.

J AT THE GAY BAR

But you both spent so many years nyg and supprsg your te feelgs for each other, prumably due to your doctratn, there was a teacher at the school who told some clearly gay stunts: “Don't do . ”One of the songs on J at the Gay Bar, “Zoom, ” seems to touch on that, when you sg, “I kd of wanna my life…”Y, that was how felt — like, “If I give to this, I'm gog to everythg. I image you get a lot of msag om your fans, the Cubbi, sayg you’ve done jt 've had untls msag om people, om somethg as simple as “You've ma me feel more fortable wh who I am bee of seeg you two” or “I had the nfince to tell my parents that I'm gay bee of you, ” to people sayg, “Your mic has lerally saved my life.

CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE ATRALIAN TOUR SUPPORT OF ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’

The school I went to would never acknowledge , but I thk they're still jt so homophobic and backward that they would rather jt turn away om . But other than that, Northsi Christian College gets not a good word om, you were tght daily lsons there about homosexualy supposedly beg a s. Do you feel any closure wh J at the Gay Bar?

GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER49.7K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSGAY BAR LYRICSGIRL!I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARLET'S START A WAR, START A NUCLEAR WARAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!AT THE GAY BARNOW TELL ME DO YA, A DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEYAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYEAH! YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARSUPERSTARSUPER, SUPER, SUPERSTARYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

But I feel on the other si of wrg that album, I released myself om a lot of that heavs, and wh J at the Gay Bar, I was fally ready to wre the phoric album that I'd been wantg to — but jt wasn't ready to wre terview has been eded for brevy and more om Yahoo Entertament:Cub Sport and the greatt g out story ever told: 'We were secretly love, but nng away om 'Savage Garn's Darren Hay on his difficult, closeted '90s: 'I was tryg to be outed'Country hmaker Shane McAnally on g out: ‘I was so aaid of what would mean to my reer’Rob Halford rells his ‘Gee Michael moment’: ‘It’s gog to be the papers! On their rplennt fifth album J At The Gay Bar, Cub Sport fally reach that pot of ecstatic lightns, or at least somewhere close to . Usg the language of bright, crystalle dance mic as shorthand for a kd of hard-won spirual eedom, J At The Gay Bar fds the four-piece - Tim Nelson, Sam Netterfield, Zoe Davis and Dan Puaari - largely sheddg hangups and celebratg love and life all s maniftatns.

GAY MANCHTER

Cub Sport's 2020 album Like Nirvana was a bloodlettg of sorts - alg wh the long, plex legacy that relig trma n leave on a life - and J At The Gay Bar is about movg forward unencumbered.

Even if J At The Gay Bar n't slip back through time, 's sure to fd a home the rerd llectns of anyone lookg to embrace the bright, bold potential of queer experience. Wrten durg the panmic, the reee sound of J At The Gay Bar was spired by time spent private, mung wh nature and relaxg wh iends and fay. Their new album - a mix of spirualy, self-reflectn, and joy - is lled "J at the Gay Bar.

At the gay bar, acrdg to the pop band Cub Sport. "J At The Gay Bar" is the tle of the Atralian group's fifth album.