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Contents:

• HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• TIM NELSON OF CUB SPORT ON THEIR NEW ALBUM 'J AT THE GAY BAR'
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• J AT THE GAY BAR
• TRACK BY TRACK: CUB SPORT BREAK DOWN ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
• 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'
• TRACK-BY-TRACK: CUB SPORT EXPLORE LOVE, LIFE, AND A NEW SOUND IN ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
• CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE ATRALIAN TOUR SUPPORT OF ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’

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

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.

J AT THE GAY BAR

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. The band explas a Yahoo terview that droppg ‘J at the Gay Bar’ on Good Friday “uld be read as provotive/ntroversial”.

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.

J AT THE GAY BAR

Named for a poem by Jay Hulme, J at the Gay Bar draws part on the long-standg relatnship between married band members Tim Nelson and Sam Netterfield, which also provid a central theme for 2020’s Like Nirvana. Their new album - a mix of spirualy, self-reflectn, and joy - is lled "J at the Gay Bar.

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

"J At The Gay Bar" is the tle of the Atralian group's fifth album.

Their synth pop sound offers a dreamy look to a young gay man's pilgrimage to love and acceptance. NELSON: Thank you so much for havg So let's start wh that tle, "J At The Gay Bar. It was spired by a poem by a guy lled Jay Hulme, and basilly picts J at a gay bar.

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A boy up to him askg to be healed of his gayns, and J tells him, my child, there's nothg this heart of yours that ever needs to be healed. NELSON: I thk was jt kd of the homophobia that I grew up was very much ternalized. I'm, like, really glad that I'm gay now, which I never thought I would Did you feel like, you know, your now-hband Sam, that he kept you safe?

J AT THE GAY BAR

Their new album is lled "J At The Gay Bar. J At The Gay Bar. The three sorrowful l that beg this article also nclu a poem by Jay Hulme, a poem that hugely spired – and directly lend s tle to – Cub Sport’s new album, J at the Gay Bar.

TRACK BY TRACK: CUB SPORT BREAK DOWN ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’

J at the Gay Bar is Cub Sport unburned and unbridled, Nelson gleefully swappg shame for elatn, wh pure love permeatg the entire rerd. And for anyone who listens to Cub Sport’s new album and relat, or at least fds a versn of who they want to be the songs, there is also genue tharsis; J won’t be at the gay bar, but salvatn might. Cub Sport’s J at the Gay Bar is out now.

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'

Sam was the first person I ever told that I was gay and he was the one person I uld be my whole self around.

I wanted J at the Gay Bar to feel upliftg all the way through, and I thk “Songs About It” is probably one of the most phoric moments on the album. 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.

TRACK-BY-TRACK: CUB SPORT EXPLORE LOVE, LIFE, AND A NEW SOUND IN ‘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.

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

”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. 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.