In between, they took time to answer a few questions through e-mail. The entire band collaborated on the answers. I'm a big local music fan. The scene here is still full of kids eager to give up their allowance for indie rock, it's just that there aren't any real touring bands coming through here right now, due to the fact that there isn't a place for them to play anymore. As of May, the Collective will be three years old, we've all played in bands together before though.
Flint tends to be an incestuous town as far as the scene goes.
Influences would just be way too many to list for you. Between the four of us, I bet I could come up with a couple hundred. We just try to write what comes to us without it sounding like everything else that's out there. We got hooked up with Camber through our label. It was a project already started and we were asked to join.