The setting is a room in a run down and disused shoe factory in St. Marys Works. I liked the dishevelled look and the peeling paint. The floor was in a different room. I married the two together. I had previously photographed the crowd of holidaymakers in the pier at Cromer. I placed them in the room to look bizarre and out of place. I introduced the ‘bandstand’ performance platform to balance the picture. This was originally in the middle of a field at the Norfolk Show, and the performers are an Acepella group called the Fine City Chorus. Composed of gentlemen of a certain age, including my brother! Lastly, the old rusting steam engine was the defining item in the picture. I photographed this on the quayside at Murray Bridge in South Australia – I think its still there. I was looking for some seagulls to add, which I did, but then rejected, but I came across the rope, which fitted just perfectly! Truly surreal.