Where's your head at right now? Mine's flying, been thinking for hours, working it all out, wondering how best to tell you that the revolution is already happening, the next scene is on the horizon. You may not see it yet, but the new underground is here already, they've been putting together an itinerary, training up the acts and setting up a huge solar powered stage, somewhere way out beyond Hackney. This is the real London Underground, it's everywhere and nowhere. It's like the matrix, but with fewer guns and more tea. Beyond the painted world of the high street restaurant, the modern pub or the overcrowded nightclub lies a fairy-tale land of gentle chaos, where people create their own communities in disused spaces, host guerilla art events in squatted office blocks and use the internet to organise and share information about mobile clubbing, anarchist knitting circles and situationalist street interventions. This is a world where many artists have moved beyond the need for success on anybody's terms but their own, where art can expand beyond the limitations of the canvas or the musical instrument to involve the creative reconstruction of society itself. It's crazy, eclectic, fiercely independent and on its way to becoming the next big thing. The new underground is emerging, and it's all about people doing their own thing, collectively. TheLondonUnderground.net is an on-line magazine and community, charting the rise of the new music and arts scene in London. We operate in the spaces where squatters, artists, protesters, hackers, musical innovators, mystics, social entrepeneurs and party people collide. It begins here, there and everywhere, simultaneously, synchronously. It's happening right now, in the back room of your local pub, in a warehouse down your street. You don't even have to do anything, but if you blink you'll miss it.