It's 1978 and a non-stop carnival of debauchery begins as the first shock of punk hits Vancouver. Now, in 2022, revisit John Armstrong's pivotal memoir in the 21st anniversary edition of Guilty of Everything.

As Buck Cherry--lead singer and guitarist of The Modernettes--Armstrong had himself a front row seat to the frenzy of the 70s and 80s alongside the likes of I Braineater, Joey Shithead, Dimwit, Chuck Biscuits, Mary Jo Kopechne, Art Bergmann and other figures of Vancouver's earliest punk days. From White Rock to Vancouver, the back rooms and alleys of the Smilin' Buddha to the Commodore Ballroom, Guilty of Everything recounts the drug-addled, booze-soaked days and nights of this anarchic era, brought to life once again by Armstrong's candid and compelling prose.

"Think Hunter S. Thompson meets Hemingway in Vancouver, and goes on a musical bender. Delicious."--Erica Leiren, Discorder Magazine

"Armstrong is a natural storyteller and vividly places the reader at a variety of seminal scenes...an entertaining and essential historical document of Canadian punk."--Michael Barclay, exclaim.ca

"Armstrong's sardonic and conversational writing style, studded with frequent one