Pop favour Cub Sport will head out on a natnal tour support of their new album J At The Gay Bar, which lands this Friday, 7th April. The tour will be the band’s biggt n yet, playg theatr all major ci across Augt and September. The Brisbane four-piece will spend the next few […] The post Cub Sport Announce Headle Tour Behd New Album ‘J at the Gay Bar’ appeared first on Mic Feeds.
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- HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
- CUB SPORT SGER TALKS G OUT AS GAY, FALLG LOVE WH BANDMATE
- 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'
- CUB SPORT’S TIM NELSON TALKS NEW ALBUM ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’ AND “PHORIC BUT PLITED” SGLE ‘KEEP ME SAFE’
- CUB SPORT ON J AT THE GAY BAR, TRAVERSG BETWEEN GENR, AND THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF THEIR LIV
- CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE HEADLE TOUR BEHD NEW ALBUM ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’
HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
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. * cub sport gay *
How the Image of J at a Gay Bar Helped Atralian Band Cub Sport Tell Their Story.
CUB SPORT SGER TALKS G OUT AS GAY, FALLG LOVE WH BANDMATE
[Pictured: Cub Sport; photo by: Jennifer Embelton] BATS, the sophomore album om Atralian die-pop group Cub Sport, follows lead volist Tim Nelson g out as gay and fallg love wh keyboardist Sam Netterfield. Nelson explas sharg their story wasn’t exactly his goal, but he went through a lot of personal velopment after the release of […] * cub sport gay *
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.
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'
NPR's Ayha Rase talks wh Tim Nelson of the Atralian band Cub Sport. Their new album - a mix of spirualy, self-reflectn, and joy - is lled "J at the Gay Bar." * cub sport gay *
BATS, the sophomore album om Atralian die-pop group Cub Sport, follows lead volist Tim Nelson g out as gay and fallg love wh keyboardist Sam Netterfield.
TIM NELSON OF CUB SPORT ON THEIR NEW ALBUM 'J AT THE GAY BAR'
Cub Sport have announced new album 'J At The Gay Bar' wh the sgle 'Keep me Safe' – read ontman Tim Nelson's terview wh NME * cub sport gay *
Nelson explas sharg their story wasn’t exactly his goal, but he went through a lot of personal velopment after the release of Cub Sport’s but album, This Is Our Vice, 2016, cludg g out as gay.
CUB SPORT’S TIM NELSON TALKS NEW ALBUM ‘J AT THE GAY BAR’ AND “PHORIC BUT PLITED” SGLE ‘KEEP ME SAFE’
The approval followed a natnal referendum that showed the public support for gay marriage.
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. “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 ON J AT THE GAY BAR, TRAVERSG BETWEEN GENR, AND THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF THEIR LIV
”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.
CUB SPORT ANNOUNCE HEADLE TOUR BEHD NEW ALBUM ‘J AT THE 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.