Cub Sport’s fifth album ‘J At The Gay Bar’ explor a h, new directn for the Atralian band – one filled wh bright, upbeat dance mic.
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
- J AT THE GAY BAR WAS FED A FIRE OF RELIGN AND LOVE — FOR BOTH OTHERS AND ONELF
- CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE ATRALIAN TOUR SUPPORT OF ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
- TRACK-BY-TRACK: CUB SPORT EXPLORE LOVE, LIFE, AND A NEW SOUND IN ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
J AT THE GAY BAR
So God created man His own image; the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. —Genis 1:27 J at the Gay BarBy 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 sp. At… * jesus in 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. [POEM] J at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme. 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.
J AT THE GAY BAR
On Friday, Cub Sport is set to release s sixth album "J at the Gay Bar," which embrac the queer love journey of two of s members. * jesus in the gay bar *
How the Image of J at a Gay Bar Helped Atralian Band Cub Sport Tell Their Story. 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 Cub Sport on Cub Sport. For their entire reer, Cub Sport have been searchg for some kd of absolutn. * jesus in the gay bar *
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.
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.
J AT THE GAY BAR WAS FED A FIRE OF RELIGN AND LOVE — FOR BOTH OTHERS AND ONELF
Frontman Tim Nelson on how 'J At the Gay Bar' — "the most phoric chapter of the Cub Sport disgraphy" — me to be. * jesus in the gay bar *
J At The Gay Bar. Released on Good Friday and named after Jay Hulme’s poem, J At The Gay Bar, the Atralian band anticipated their sixth project would have an impact. “Back 2016, when we put out our first album, I uldn’t have imaged even tellg anybody that I was gay, let alone dog so publicly, ” Nelson tells me over Zoom, a week before the rerd’s Easter release.
Nelson scrib J At The Gay Bar as “the most phoric chapter of the Cub Sport disgraphy.
CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE ATRALIAN TOUR SUPPORT OF ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
Cub Sport have announced a natnal headle tour support of their jt-released fifth album, ‘J At The Gay Bar’. * jesus in the gay bar *
Nelson and Netterfield on Cub Sport’s J At The Gay Bar album ver.
It was really COMFORTING for my younger self, who so sperately wanted to be HEALED of beg GAY. As for the tle, Nelson explaed felt tied both sonilly — “like beg set at a gay bar, kd of like dance mic” — as well as symbolilly. “And I thk was like, really fortg for my younger self, who so sperately wanted to be healed of beg gay — like I would like pray, like every day for years that I would wake up the next day straight — so I thk namg this album after that poem feels like the perfect meetg pot of all of the ti and thgs that have kd of been g to this pot for years.
TRACK-BY-TRACK: CUB SPORT EXPLORE LOVE, LIFE, AND A NEW SOUND IN ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
“People have lled J At The Gay Bar blasphemo and a mockery, ” he ntued. People have lled ‘J At The Gay Bar‘ BLASPHEMOUS… but to see like that MISSES THE POINT. In fact, Nelson not, “When I was growg up there were no love songs about gay upl.
The poem om which the album gaed s name may be about a gay bar, but the energy ptur is one ak to that felt at their live shows. For those who e to the album at a different pot their own journey — perhaps halfway to where Nelson is, or even where he was way back 2016, or prr — J At The Gay Bar is a reassurance that one day, thgs will be okay; and most of all, there is nothg that heart of yours that ever needs to be healed. Stream J At The Gay Bar below or on Spotify or Apple Mic.