Empty Orchestra start singing. The music was pumped up and we had a mini party, with mad dancing – that was a memorable scene to film." The filming introduced a number of technical challenges, with the producer Adam Tandy explaining that the simultaneous singing and conversing made production particularly difficult: "To record it all 'clean' and have options in the edit, that was technically hard on everybody." Typically, karaoke scenes in television will see characters sing only the opening lines, but because of the format of "Inside No. 9", the characters in "Empty Orchestra" sing the whole song. Each character sang a
Empty Orchestra to some degree". The idea of a love story, which is how Pemberton characterised "Empty Orchestra", was also "very appealing". Pemberton ultimately chose the episode as his favourite of the series, calling it very different to other episodes of "Inside No. 9". At the series launch, speaking in reference to the previous episode "The Riddle of the Sphinx", Pemberton said that "When you’ve cut someone's bum off and eaten it, you kind of go, well, better try something different!" One influence on the episode was Shane Meadows's "This Is England"; Pemberton drew inspiration from the way that characters' enjoyment of