#good omens tour

[ktkellart]

Good Omens London Trip 🐍💞🪽

It's my Birthday today and I treated myself to a trip to London last weekend to see my favourite actor Michael Sheen in Nye at the National Theatre. I made the most of my weekend by combining it with a Good Omens filming location self-tour and I'd love to share it with you all. So, are you ready for the tour?

Here we go!

Starting off with Soho, and the inspiration for Whickber Street, where Aziraphale's bookshop, Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death, The Small Back Room, and the Dirty Donkey are located.

It’s Berwick Street and a record shop that is very similar in shape to A.Z Fell & Co. Bonus points for spotting Duck Lane!

Next is Berkeley Square, a short walk from Soho. The first two photos are of the real Berkeley Square gardens in Mayfair, and the last two photos were taken in the filming location of Tavistock Square across the other side of central London near Kings Cross. I’m sitting on their ‘body swap’ bench in the last photo!

As you can see, the benches are turned around facing inwards now but are the other way, facing outwards in Good Omens.

Oh, and I can confirm that there were no nightingales singing in either location 😭

Heading up the road a few minutes from Tavistock Square to The Enterprise pub where I met a fellow fan who kindly took photos of me posing (I bet the staff thought we were off our rockers!). This is where Crowley drowns his sorrows in Talisker Whisky whilst waiting for the world to end after thinking he'd lost Aziraphale. Omg that poor poor demon, he was really just gonna die along with the world.

Also, one of my favourite moments of season 1 is Crolwey's line: "I heard that. It was the wiggle-on..." then shrugs. 😆 So many emotions in such short a time.

Onto the Ritz. The first two photos are of the real Ritz (a stone's throw from Berkeley Square) and the last one is inside Masala Zone in Piccadilly Circus where the ‘Quite extraordinary amounts of alcohol’ and ‘To the World’ scenes were filmed.

I ate in here alone to get the photo and was so lucky with the table I was given! Perfect discreet snap whilst eating my curry! Haha!

Next up is Battersea Park and the Bandstand. It was a bit of a faff to get there, it's an 8-minute walk from the Battersea Power Station underground and we walked the full length of the park to find the Bandstand, but it was so worth it.

Also filmed here was Gabriel and Aziraphale’s run/jog. Poor Angel is soft scene.

The trees were a little leafier with it being mid-May and the park was very busy because the weather was glorious. They also have a beautiful lake here with herons!

The Heaven & Hell staircase escalators are right over the east side of London in Broadgate Tower, Bishopsgate. I got the overground to Liverpool Street station to get there. It is in a private business building so I politely/awkwardly asked the receptionist if I could take a photo and had to explain about the scene from Good Omens… eek! But he kindly let me snap a photo anyway! (Phew)

The Windmill Theatre was three minutes away from my hotel in Piccadilly Circus, so I wandered up the road to take a photo of where Aziraphale ‘performed on the West End stage’ as Fell the Marvelous. And wasn’t he just?

The scenes weren't filmed here but it was fun to find it anyway.

St James’s Park is up next! I sat on their bench and got my friend to take photos of me posing and had fun editing the first photo. Haha! We enjoyed walking through the park, watching the ducks on the lake and had a nosey at Buckingham Palace while we were there.

The Duke of York Statue steps are at the other end of St James's Park and were fun to walk up. I smiled to myself as I thought of the scene where Crowley says ‘Well let's have lunch? Hmm,’ and Aziraphale turns around, as it was the first time I realised that these two were more than just friends.

Heaven’s top floor, the Sky Garden in Fenchurch Street near Monument is a very tall building with a botanical garden on the top floor. You can visit the sky garden for free, but you do need to book in advance so it’s best to plan ahead for this one. The views of London are breathtaking from the 35th floor and the tropical plants are fun.

My last stop for this visit was Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. I booked a tour on the morning I was due to go home. The first tour is 10 am and lasts an hour, so I dashed off as soon as the tour guide was uttering his last words about the gift shop, across London back to Kings Cross to pick up my suitcase from luggage storage and get the 11:48 am train home!

One I missed and could have easily gone to is Abingdon Street where Newton and Shadwell meet, and Shadwell fleeces Newton for a cup of tea with nine sugars and pockets the change. A bit gutted I missed it to be honest – I love Jack Whitehall (I’m back in London with the family in June so I’ll swing by and update then!)

There are also some other locations a little further afield that I might try to visit on a later date, such as Shadwell's and Madam Tracy's flat down Hornsey Road in Islington, Crowley's Flat exterior in Eastfields Avenue, Best Cafe on Garratt Lane where Crowley meets Shadwell, Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park where the ineffable husbands watch Warlock defacing a dinosaur sign and Antonella's Cafe and Bistro where Crowley and Aziraphale are thinking of ideas to track down the antichrist whist Aziraphale eats cake.

Okay, I’m gonna finish up with the man himself. The very kind, very charming, and VERY patient Michael Sheen The reason for my London visit in the first place. Nye was spectacular OBviOUsLy, but he was super generous with his time at stage door for us all. I got a hug and asked him to pass it on to Aziraphale (that angel really needs a hug) and it made him laugh, which made my night!

Here’s the wonderful map I used -

from this website:

#good omens #good omens filming locations #good omens london #good omens tour #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #neil gaiman #michael sheen #david tennant #good omens locations #nye #Shakespeare globe #battersea park #st james's park #the ritz #Berkeley square #soho #mayfair #sky garden #windmill theatre #good omens travel

[scrapheapchallenge]

Ok so click the link for post and to contact, as I don't check tumblr as often as I should, but I have new dates for my Good Omens tours of London which people are welcome to join in on if they're in the area. But if not, don't worry, just drop me a DM over on facebook and I can set up other dates as well, weekdays are best. The tour is entirely wheelchair accessible (as I'm a wheelchair user myself) and I know a few accessible bathrooms along the route. Weekdays are best as that's when most of the places are open. I've been doing this for a while now, I live locally and have added other places of interest which we pass along the route anyway. Tours meet at 11am, which gives plenty of time to saunter vaguely down to the bodyswap bench, take some photos, and then a leisurely stroll on down to the Enterprise pub for when it opens at midday. More tour details on the page.

#goodomens #crowley #good omens #Aziraphale #london #good omens tour #filming locations

[frog-person]

Just got my photos in from the studio tour and it was absolutely amazing, ive said this before but huge props to the team to make this a reality also @neil-gaiman I saw the paintings in the dirty donkey you said you like, amazing choice of artwork there

#also face reveal ig #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #gos2 #season 2 #good omens season two #good omens set tour #good omens photos #good omens tour #good omens studio tour

[michael-sheens]

How I find out Good Omens has been renewed. 🥹🥹

Edit: courtesy of @bbbonejamin who deserves all the praise for this adorable gesture.

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #michael sheen #david tennant #neil gaiman #currently doing an ineffable tour of London :') #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #alysha.txt

[mobius-m-mobius]

#buckle up y'all here we go again 🫠

#david tennant #crowley #fourteenth doctor #good omens 2 #doctor who #who among us is immune to an impending scene of david tennant emoting 🙃 #please excuse the two minutes i had free to edit but #hi hello and good morning to the tour de force he's got going on this year #dwedit #goodomensedit #fourteen #dtennantedit #dianagifs

[ingravinoveritas]

Love like that will surely come my way...

#david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #BAFTAs 2024 #good omens #aziraphale #the parallels are paralleling #first thing that came to mind when i watched the Michelle V. interview #and how sweetly David now seems to be wearing his heart on his sleeve #why do i get the feeling that she Knows #the way the entire British acting industry Knows #compare this to how reserved he was during the S1 press tour #just imagine what they'll be like when S3 filming starts #insufferable incorrigible and in love #amazing #gifs by me

[jeansyvesmoreau]

trying to find a part of me you didn't take up

gave you so much, but it wasn't enough

but I'll be alright, it's just a thousand cuts

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: free choice lgbtq

#good omens #aziracrow #melone.gif #** #userrlorelei #tusermyra #userbecca #goodomensedit #dailyineffablehusbands #alivedean #userriel #userlgbtq #aziraphale #crowley #hey did you know taylor messed up the death by a thousand cuts bridge several times on tour. just like how in the final 15 they- [gunshots] #anyway go listen to dbatc it's so painfully them that I spent ages trying to decide which lyric to use

[thenobleprincex]

They are set, do not separate 🤍🖤

(Thank you @juditsa88 for these!!! I love them 💕 can't wait to make their angel versions!!)

#aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #micheal sheen #good omens #and thank you all for all the love one the crowley post!!!! i really was not expecting it?!?!? #i also would've been done a lot sooner but between the eras tour (🥰🤩) and getting sick (😑😩😒) i just couldn't #mine

[parttimesarah]

Bleach this man’s hair and that’s your David Tennant Aziraphale right there!

#I still think about Neil saying that Crowley would have been much nastier if Michael played him #like more violent or volatile #and I can see that #but I can also see how soft and charmingly naive David’s Aziraphale would have been #waiting for that theatrical tour they’ve promised us where they switch roles every night #David Tennant’s Aziraphale #good omens #gomens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant

[ebechnasheim]

I’d give anything for something, to feel anything at all | source

#dude nicholas with matrix sunglasses kills me #I love these #there’s so many good pics and vids from this tour #I’m really drowning in love #bad omens #bad omens cult #nicholas ruffilo #noah sebastian #fave #nick folio #jolly karlsson

[sentientsky]

i’ve been terrible at replying to people lately. i feel so guilty, but how the hell am I supposed to explain that i’ve been flaky because i can't stop thinking ab two fictional immortal losers that spend two seasons of a tv show and 5 and a half odd million years just homoerotically gazing at one another and yearning???

#well i mean it's also the adhd. mostly the adhd. and the depression adjaskdljas #in the middle of my apology tour right now. how do neurotypicals just. REPLY to emails and texts and stuff. HOW??!?!?! #actually pre-covid i was pretty decent at replying to people. but i was also exhausted and burnt out and running on pure adrenaline #and then i got diagnosed and the skill regression hit HARD #personal #good omens #shitpost #good omens shitpost #aziracrow #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #aziraphale #go2 #adhd

[phoen1xr0se]

Guess who is going to THE RITZ today???

*incoherent squeals of excitement*

#the ritz #good omens #good omens london #to the world #ineffable #who wants photos #ineffable besties tour of london #neil gaiman none of this would be happening without you #crowley #aziraphale

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

Gabriel walking out to face Shax and the other demons

#good omens #good omens 2 #gabriel #beyonce #jon hamm #good omens spoilers #renaissance world tour

[thesherrinfordfacility]

soundtracksoundtracksoundtracksoundtr

okay let's not pretend i didn't go straight to this one: 0:33 onwards of the biggest decision - instant tears, brings me to my knees, yanking at my hair, howling at the moon

ok yes i have major feelings at the motif arrangement in not kind, its literally like hearing crowley's inner monologue to me it's so soft and vulnerable and i want to give him a squidge

i don't want to talk about fallen angel it hurts but fuck it im gonna, im such a whore for string swells and 1:17 onwards just does me in, the lilting and the rides and falls is just superb fuuuuuck

4:51 of catch the bullet!!! the little snare trill!!! gOD and then the stRINGS? then that brass ok no i can't talk about it

oh crowley and muriel is so gorgeous and serene i love it sm

love how hard he's smoking goes at like 0:33, it's nails, and then slam at 0:53? CHRIST it's so 'theme that got left in the car' i love it and it's perfect powerful crowley score yesyesyesyesye

monsieur azirophale [sic?] is so silly im giggling kicking my feet twirling my hair

okay but if there is anything that sums up like the ✨magic✨ of GO for me is the 0:00 - 0:16 of the candelabra it's so preeeeeetty

okay now i won't lie. this is the one i truly, truly wanted. my favourite scene in the whole mf show is the lift arrives/Going Up sequence, and the MUSIC hit me like a freight train when i was watching it, i was practically thrown back in my seat, like if i was feeling at all sleepy at 5am on premiere day the music in this scene woke me tf Up, the music in this bit would resurrect me from my grave it is That GOOD (the circle, just listen to all of it it's perfect) (ok actually i will say that the electricity noises in the show did add to the✨ambiance✨ but that's minor)

10/10 soundtrack god bless us all

#good omens #good omens soundtrack #david arnold is a fucking genius im in awe #arnold symphony orchestra tour when??? #i went to a concert of zimmer vs williams and that was insane (even if they did butcher chevaliers a little bit but anyway) #id do a lot of things to see like an arnold vs maybe silvestri? or actually no maybe djawadi yessssss djawadi

[brainisafunnyplace]

this one is for my ineffable swifties

i haven't posted on tumblr in a hot minute, but this masterpiece i made couldn't just sit in my folder without sharing

brb gonna print it on a tshirt

#ineffable husbands #good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens fanart #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #the eras tour #taylor swift #swifties

[azariah-z-fell]

Crowley : ready for it

To

Aziraphale : wildest dreams

#I couldn’t stop thinking about them at the eras tour #so many Taylor swift songs work with them #good omens #Crowley #Aziraphale #aziracrow