UNHOLY A CAPPELLA NUN CHOIR CRASHES
SXSW TO HERALD THE APOCALYPSE
& THE LAUNCH OF AMAZON PRIME VIDEO’S UPCOMING
LIMITED SERIES GOOD OMENS
The Chattering Order of St. Beryl is on a World Ending Tour right up until the End of Days, which happens to be the launch of the Prime Original series on 5/31
SXSW activities included a VIP karaoke party, hijacking Neil Gaiman's keynote, performances at Amazon’s Garden of Earthly Delights and descending on everything else within hearing range at SXSW.
Amazon Prime Video and its highly anticipated book-turned-series Good Omens brought the apocalypse to Austin for SXSW. Today, Amazon Prime Video is announcing that the Chattering Order of St. Beryl, an unholy a cappella nun choir who crashed events all over SXSW’s opening weekend and performed at the Good Omens Garden of Earthly Delights, is heralding the apocalypse, or the May 31 launch of the series with a World Ending Tour.
Nuns from the Chattering Order of St. Beryl beset Austin festival’s opening weekend with official and mostly unofficial concerts throughout the weekend. They practically hijacked Neil Gaiman’s featured panel on Saturday, interrupting it halfway through, delivering a message about The End Days to Neil himself before launching into their original song “Good Omens.”
The Chattering Order of St. Beryl played a key role of misplacing the antiChrist baby in Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1991 novel on which the series is based.
The Chattering Order of St. Beryl first appeared on social media in early February after they auditioned for America’s Got Talent in Los Angeles, the first stop on their “World Ending Tour.” They released a clue for the show’s launch date before it was officially announced, giving fans on Twitter the opportunity to figure out the much-anticipated series premiere date. Throughout all of this, they’ve stayed quiet on their relationship to Amazon Prime Video as fans questioned whether they were super fans of Good Omens or viral marketing for the show.
The face-to-face reveal at SXSW with Neil Gaiman confirms their role, but Amazon Prime Video and the Chattering Order have made it clear that this is just the beginning of their World Ending Tour, which, according to their website, includes stops in New York and London throughout the spring.
“The Apocalypse doesn’t come along every day, and there’s no one we’d rather sing it in with than The Chattering Order of St Beryl,” said Mike Benson, Head of Marketing at Amazon Prime Video. “We’re looking forward to seeing where the Chattering Order pops up next to spread the Good Omens.”
After Gaiman and his characters met, the choir performed at the Good Omens Garden of Earthly Delights, the studio’s hub of activity and parties at SXSW which also included tarot, aura readers, a “hell-hound” puppy pen and evening parties. They continued their hijinks throughout the festival by showing up at various events and parties and on heavily-trafficked pedestrian streets of Austin, performing spontaneously, interacting with spectators, and chattering incessantly.
Amazon Prime Video worked with creative production partner Tool of North America and Director Hal Kirkland to bring these fictional characters to life on stage and on social media. The creation of the twenty-six-member choir involved writing several original songs such as “Ode to Antichristmas” and “That Brand New Baby Smell,” which were arranged by the “Father of Modern A Cappella” Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect).
Learn more about the Chattering Order of St. Beryl at www.Thechatteringorderofstberyls.com; photo and video assets can be found here.
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