It is with great sadness that we write you today. Pela’s collective journey has come to an end.

Over the past 2 years we’ve faced tremendous obstacles.  We recorded an album twice, had a falling out/legal battle with our old label, fired 2 managers, had a big record deal fall through, and Billy had a hand injury followed by a foot injury.

We’ve worked tirelessly to get our music out of ourselves and into your ears.  We worked endlessly to make the music and our live show the best we could.  At the end of the day we had to start dealing with some realizations.

We will never be able to thank you enough for your support. For those of you that drove and flew hours just to see a show, we thank you. For those of you who wrote us and gave us the opportunity to get to know you, we thank you. For those of you who told us to keep soldiering on, we thank you. Words can’t really describe how we’re feeling about this difficult decision, but we want you to know that it’s the healthiest decision we could make.

Your lovely faces are etched into our memories.  Looking at the Crowd Project videos says it all.

Please keep in touch, we’ll promise to do the same.

xoxo- Nate, Billy, Tom, and Eric

Videographer Matteo Bava has created a new video of  the lads performing backstage, before the show at Neumos in Seattle.

You can see more of Matteo’s work at his website.

Pela performing at Mercury Lounge at TheAlternateSide.org Launch Party. They closed their performance with a cover of The Clash’s “Guns of Brixton”!!!

Thank you to PJislife for posting this video…… Recorded at the Bowery Ballroom 6/6/08 

photo by bob sanderson

One last Crowd Project has finally come in and the series is complete. We were finally able to overcome technical difficulties due to Chris Herb’s diligence. Thank you to everyone at Sasquatch! Cheers…… Eric

For this tour we have put together a project that gives the crowd a chance to broadcast on our website. Every night we will take a video of the crowd and post it on our website the next day. This will hopefully give people a chance to see themselves at the show. It will also give everyone at home to see what the terrain or touring life can look like. Our first post comes from The Rock and Roll Hotel in DC. Cheers…. Eric

Filmed last night, May 21st, at Schubas in front of a sold out room. Thank you to everyone that came for making this such a memorable night. Eric

Just woke up. We are working on catching up on all of the information we have been gathering for the last two days. Here’s part 4 of the crowd project; a sold out room in Seattle. Thank you so much to everyone that came out…. (more to come)

We love you San Francisco!!! Thank you to everyone that came out!