False Positives is the long awaited, chilling new single fromAntonio Lulic, taken from his forthcoming EP Departures concerning the police killing of innocent Londoner Jean Charles de Menezes, in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings. Antonio Lulicrecalls...
“On the 22nd of July, a man being followed by the London Metropolitan Police was shot and killed on a train at Stockwell tube station, on suspicion of being one of the previous day's bombers. In truth, as it would eventually transpire, he was Jean Charles de Menezes,a Brazilian who was mistaken for a terrorist because of the color of his hair and his skin.”
“The song itself started writing itself in my head, listening to news broadcasts and reading reports about the sequence of events that led to this mans death. But back in 2005, it was still too raw, and the story wasn't yet finished being told.
In 2016, on hearing that Jean Charles' family had lost their final appeal at the European Court of Human Rights, the song came back to me, and I realised that I could finish it.”
He recently returned from opening up for old friendEd Sheeranon his Latin American stadium tour. The pair met playing on the London Singer-songwriter scene and have been playing shows together ever since.
