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John
Botica began life as a musician at the age of fifteen. His
first band of note was the mid 1980's Sydney based heavy rock band
Ironheart. Following the breakup of Ironheart in 1986 John formed
The Labrats with drummer Brendon Venner and bassist Mark O'Connor
and reluctantly took on the lead vocals, something which he had
not done since 1978 in his first three piece outfit called Bad News.
After a year and a half of performing their unique brand of blistering
heavy rocking punk in venues all over Sydney the Labrats eventually
travelled to England where they performed on the London underground
circuit up until their disbanding in 1990. A year later John returned
to Australia where he and Venner formed yet another three piece
called Full Moon Radio. Although FMR had a rather short lifespan
it did manage to record a self titled mini album which appeared
on the AMO label and was distributed through Mighty Boy Records.
In 1992 following the breakup of Full Moon Radio, John found himself
as lead guitarist for His Majesty, a band featuring ex AC/DC and
Masters Apprentices Colin and Denny Burgess. It was with this band
that John worked with the late American songster Tiny Tim, appearing
live on stage and on his last three recorded studio albums, all
of which were produced by Australian artist and iconoclast Martin
Sharp.
In 1995 John joined ex Widowed Isis violinist Marvin Druid in the
forming of The Sunshine Crowd. The band recorded an as yet to be
released album which was produced by Jim Hilbun of the Angels. Following
this John rejoined His Majesty who had since changed their name
to Good Time Charlie. |
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In 1997 Good Time
Charlie recorded an album titled "Adults Only" and twice
toured South East Asia promoting it. In 2000 John left Good Time
Charlie and went on to form his own band "John Botica's alibi".
He recorded his self produced debut album titled "Between the
Shadows" which was released in 2003 on the "Laughing Outlaw
Records" label. |
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