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8 ISSUE 90 / 2016 GUESTLIST HOW TO: STOP GIVING A F**K ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK GET OVER IT 1. No One Actually Cares You'd be surprised as to how many people genuinely don't give a shit about most things that aren't themselves. People forget your words and actions. When we go through our days thinking about what other people are thinking of us, believe everyone else is doing the same. Even if you did something stupid in public and people are blatantly given an opportunity to judge, they're still thinking about how others might perceive their actions. Get that under your belt and you'll genuinely stop caring about what other people think as much. 2. Surround yourself with people you aspire to be like One of the most basic steps to take in all kinds of self-improvement is this baby right here. Surround yourself with likeminded people who are self-assured and have their heads screwed on. Company rubs off on us and when you're spending your time with people who don't give a shit about what people think, it will start to come more naturally to you. 3. Know what means the most to you What is the ultimate goal for you? What are you aiming for and truly value? Once you know what the most important mission is for you, the opinions of strangers and acquaintances will mean less and less. When you know your values, your dreams, goals and missions, you have something to work with and something to stand up for. Once you've got that on lock, you'll find it easier to turn down invites that you know you shouldn't go to or say no to a night clubbing for fear of missing out. When your goals are on point, you've got direction and when you've got direction, you won't let insignificant insecurities get you down. 3. You can't please everyone Perhaps the most important point. You can live your entire life by the way of others, trying to make everyone around you happy whilst forgetting yourself in the process but eventually you're going to realise that you just can't please everyone. People are always going to judge, disagree and disapprove and most of the time, someone will be offended either way. So do you, stop giving a f**k what people think and get out there and live. More @guestlist.net For lunch today we popped to Trade, just round the corner from the office on Commercial Street in Whitechapel. TRADE YOUR MEAL DEAL FOR THE REAL DEAL The award-winning breakfast and brunch place grabbed our eyes with its British-American menu, dominated by all the delicious and healthy (ish) food items we've come to expect from hipster brunch – avocado, feta, poached eggs, asparagus and sourdough. The numerous pastrami options are balanced by a wealth of original veggie options, including a mouth-watering three cheese mix. If any sandwich is worth a fiver it's these. Vegans - maybe not for you. When the Black Madonna first came to our attention a few years ago with huge, slow-burning disco tracks like 'Stay' and 'We Still Believe' in 2012 and 2013, she was a producer of unique and intelligent house and disco, who was beginning to carve a special place for herself in global music. Today, a few years down the line, she's more than proven herself capable of materialising the principles she clearly holds dear as a human being and musician. One of the main voices coming out of Chicago right now in terms of dance music, Marea Vierge-Noire, AK A the Black Madonna, might be the most influential current advocate of the original spirit of disco, house and Chicago rave. She is known for vocally championing and ensuring diversity, equal opportunities and boundary- pushing, which have been put on the backburner in dance music in recent years, replaced by profit baiting as the genre explodes ever further into the mainstream. In 2013, Noire became the Creative Director of Chicago's main venue for dance music, Smart Bar, putting herself in the ideal position to realise her vision of dance music and give others the same opportunity. Since then, Smart Bar's bookings of women are around 30-40%, more than the vast majority of international nightclubs. This week the Black Madonna teams up with another of dance music's notorious androgynes, Tiga, in a track which oozes old school glamour. She remixes his 'Blondes Have More Fun' in what must be one of this year's most transcendent bits of disco. She throws in slabs of Moog Voyager for a bassline deeper than the ocean. Tiga said of the record: "Rarely do I feel somebody nail the real, true, deep funk that I always crave.... and now, I got it. A killer remix, that I will be supporting heavily." The Black Madonna's next gigs in the UK are at Field Maneuvers and the Warehouse Project. The Black Madonna will be ripping up a set near you in September THE BLACK MADONNA STAYS CHICAGO FEATURE FOOD

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