The In Cloud
PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS, NOVEMBER 2014
Songbird Lily Allen, backstage after her Sheezus gig in Devon, makes a stylish new accessory out of Cloud Nine. She sashayed across the dressing room without them even swaying.
PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL, ST GERMANS, JULY 2014
The fashionistas: model Jade Parfitt and stylist Cathy Kasterine
Jade: 'We bought some Salted Caramel marshmallows and ate them in one sitting! Yum xx'
The performers: actor Patrick Kennedy and poet Salena Godden
The former journalistas: festival organiser and chatelaine Cathy St Germans, Orla Large and Radio 2 Drivetime presenter Rebecca Pike
The heavyweights: QI head of research and bon viveur John Mitchinson and Magnum photographer Martin Parr
The kooks: Pearl Lowe and Danny Goffey, and their children Frankie, Alfie and Betty
THE ART CAR BOOT FAIR, SHOREDITCH, JUNE 2014
Superstar Siobhan Fahey, of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister, softens up her vocal chords with a Cloud Nine
VICTORIA HULL'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, NORTH DEVON, MAY 2014
Columnists on Cloud Nine, Rowan Pelling and Toby Young (with son Ludo)
DANNY GOFFEY'S BLACK MAGIC BIRTHDAY PARTY, Somerset, February 2014
The delectable Miss Daisy Lowe, fresh-faced at Babington House after her family shindig:
'I want some of your marshmallows!'
Before and After: outstanding though not always upstanding actor Rhys Ifans is so inspired by Cloud Nine he gives us one of our best quotes:
'It's like going down on Willy Wonka'
HARPER SIMON'S BACK IN TOWN PARTY, London, February 2014
We'd hazard a guess that the brilliant rock'n'roller Harper Simon was on Cloud Nine when us leopard harpies welcomed him back
LUELLA BARTLEY'S BIRTHDAY DINNER, May 2013
Luella Bartley, creative director Marc Jacobs, and her leaning tower of Cloud Nine Marshmallows
LIVE STOCK MARKET, EAST LONDON, March 2014
Just because you designed the label doesn't mean you can have the last one!
Artist Gavin Turk
BONFIRE NIGHT IN SOMERSET, November 2013
Demonic drummer and angelic cook Danny Goffey and vintage queen and sweetheart Pearl Lowe
THE CORNISH TRIPLETS
Never actually been seen in the same room
Peregrine, Earl of St Germans; Johnny Bamford, location manager;
Mike Jones, landlord, The Rod and Line pub
OPEN EAST FESTIVAL, OLYMPIC STADIUM, July 2013
'These are amazing, and I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it, because I'm always honest'
Designer Pam Hogg
ROB NEWMAN'S SHOW, EXETER, JANUARY 2013
Writer and comedian Rob Newman combines esoteric and entertainment in his most excellent one-man show, 'New Theory of Evolution'. We hope the Cloud Nines took his mind off the weighty issues for a while
ELEVENSES AT HESKYN FARM, July 2013
Journalist Heather Hodson and Port Eliot Festival co-director Catherine St Germans,
relaxing into a Creme de Violette marshmallow
'I didn't like marshmallows before I tried yours and I LOVE them! They are absolutely delicious and very beautiful.'
POST-KAYAKING, THE BOATHOUSE AT PORT ELIOT, June 2013
Author Maria Alvarez and Art Car Boot Fair director Karen Ashton, leading lights of the St Germans intelligentsia and keen Cloud Niners
THE BOATHOUSE CAMP, PORT ELIOT, August 2013
Poet and playwright Murray Lachlan Young, and Hamish Guerrini, founder of Glastonbury's The Rabbit Hole, deciding the best mode of attack
GAZ MAYALL AND ELINOR FAHR'S WEDDING, HYDE PARK, April 2013
Artist Iris Palmer and actress Honeysuckle Weeks, displaying their eternal good taste
Model and Honeyjam co-owner Jasmine Guinness, Nowness editor Rebecca Guinness, stunt rider Heron White, campaigner Zita Lloyd and DJ extraordinaire Poppy Lloyd sail up to Cloud Nine
Tricia Ronane, director at Cut Throat Productions:
'I thought your marshmallows were delicious. Scoffed the lot myself I am ashamed to say.'
BIRTHDAY DINNER, DEVON, April 2013
A strangely unbecoming shot of Suggs at dinner in Barnstable to celebrate the birthdays of Louis Eliot and Tom Hodgkinson. His brilliant touring show My Life Story earned him a standing ovation that night. He couldn't wait to get the Cloud Nines back to his hotel room.
Designer and Cloud Nine enthusiast Maia Norman of Mother of Pearl, with legendary DJ Wendy May
Co-founder of Agent Provocateur Serena Rees