John Armstrong

John Armstrong is an award–winning journalist, writer and musician. His early life as a "minor punk rock cult figure" is chronicled in his first book, Guilty of Everything, which was shortlisted for the Roderick Haig–Brown prize, awarded to the best non–fiction book published in BC that year. After dropping out of high school, he played in the legendary first–wave punk band the Modernettes. A compilation of Modernettes recordings was issued in 2005 by Sudden Death Records, and a reconstituted Modernettes will tour Europe and Japan in 2007. An accomplished journalist, Armstrong won multiple awards for critical writing, feature writing and hard news during his 15–year tenure at the Vancouver Sun. He is co–owner of Paramount Recorders, a Downtown Eastside recording studio, where he is finishing his first album of new material in 23 years. He currently lives in East Vancouver's Skid Row with a Rotweiller named BoBo. In his spare time he drinks.