He's never quite got over the demise of Sham 69 and the subsequent annexation of youth culture by the iniquitous forces of global capitalism. Once the most radical man in Britain, now the only radical man in Britain, Alan stands alone in his heroic fight against the system.
In 1996, Alan was busy spreading sedition on the nations TV screens as he took up residence on ITV's "Saturday Live" and appeared in his own BBC-2 show "London Shouting", which was written with Father Ted (CH4) creator, Graham Linehan. For this he was nominated as Best Television Newcomer in the 1996 British Comedy Awards.
Following the success of his previous shows 'Stop The Fibbing'(1992) and 'Living On The Edge' (1993), Alan Parker-Urban Warrior toured the UK for the first time in three years in Autumn '96, with a show destined to "frighten the government and all it's secret friends - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE." The tour was a major sell-out success.
"Looking at history, I realise that things were worse back then, but also I see that it's the same now. Things haven't changed. They've got worse. So that's why I'm saying - the time is now.. Again!" (Alan)
Alan Parker-Urban Warrior is a bedsit anarchist inspired by the lyrics of punk bands, namely Sham '69 and The UK Subs. Described as a "Wolfie Smith for the nineties" (The Independent) - Alan is a self-appointed spokesperson for the dispossesed generation and prophet to the disconnected masses etc, seeking to smash the system with subversion, some placards and a spray-can. In this new show Alan traverses the bourgeois-fascist-middle-class-nazi-fascist worlds of art, politics and music, promising lots of truth, plenty of shouting, fashion advice ("ignore it") and absolutely NO lies.
