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Loons

by 10 October 2022
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Who is Loons?

Loons (real name Andre Pierre Osbourne) is a podcaster and content creator from east London. He is known for being co-host of No Behaviour Podcast, as well as his appearances on Filthy Fellas’ Filthy @ Five and other YouTube channels.

Prior to No Behaviour Loons was a career criminal and has spent a significant amount of time in prison since his first sentence in the late 1990s. His only significant media exposure prior to the podcast was as the host of Mashtown mixtapes in the mid 2000s.

 

Loons’ Media Career

Loons is primarily known for his role as one of the hosts of No Behaviour Podcast, along with Margs and Beano. This has led to personality-based appearances on a number of different YouTube channels.

 

No Behaviour Podcast

No Behaviour Podcast is a podcast hosted by Margs, Loons and Beano. The platform was launched in January 2020 and features the friends from Hackney in conversation, sharing anecdotes, discussing current affairs and tackling dilemmas.

No Behaviour guests have included many of the pair’s childhood friends including former Mashtown members Tricky, T-Mac and Hypo.

No Behaviour was launched the month after Loons was released from prison for a drugs charge in the Isle of Man, and after Margs had recovered from a recent aneurism that led to his hospitalisation.

Loons has stated that the podcast changed his life, as it pushed him towards life as a content creator and YouTube personality featuring on a number of different channels.

Loons has mentioned that he views the podcast as a means to inspire people in prison and demonstrate alternative career paths once they return home.

 

Filthy @ Five

Between September 2020 and March 2021 Loons appeared on the Filthy Fellas’ Filthy @ Five football podcast frequently. He joined an evolving cast which includes his No Behaviour co-host Margs, as well as other regulars including Specs Gonzales, Poet, Tego, Lippy, PK Humble, Savage Dan and more.

 

Just Hype

In November 2021 Loons started to appear in Just Hype content, starting with a Hype Reacts video with Lippy. He has also featured their other shows Brunchin’, The Tazer Black Helpline and The Old One-Two.

 

P45

Loons has appeared in various gaming videos for the P45 YouTube channel, run by Alhan Gençay, since March 2023.

 

Loons’ Business Ventures

In 2021 Loons launched a clothing brand named Yxng Rottweiler.

 

Loons’ Media Appearances

Loons has appeared on a range of different platform by himself and with his No Behaviour Podcast co-host Margs. He is credited by different names including Loon and Loonz. Find his media appearances below:

Loons’ Personal Life

Loons was born and raised in east London and has lived in various parts of the region over the years. In his formative years from age 10 Loons lived on Pembury Estate in Hackney. Loons is of Jamaican heritage and has an older brother, and a younger brother (via his mother and stepfather). Loons’ biological father played little role in his upbringing.

Loons went to a local primary school with future Mashtown member Chedz, Margs’ cousin. Loons attended traditional school up to year 7. He was excluded from Holloway Comprehensive School (now renamed Beacon High) in Islington, while it was still a boys-only facility. He then attended Highbury Grove School for “a couple of months” before he was excluded and was referred to an educational unit until his first prison conviction.

In his youth Loons played football regularly and took part in a trial at Norwich FC.

In an incident in 2005 Loons sustained 13 knife wounds. It resulted in injuries all over his body including stabbings in his face and chest. Loons was hospitalised and spent time in a coma while medical personnel tended to injuries to his heart valve, lungs and liver.

Loons believes the perpetrators were individuals involved with local street tensions, rather than people with a direct issue with him. The rehabilitation took over a year before he could take part in sporting activity again.

Loons was shot at Hackney Central 1-2 years after the stabbing incident. It is believed those responsible also had a hand in the prior stabbing.

Loons once enrolled at university in an attempt to secure a student loan payment. He dropped out soon after.

Loons is a parent and has two children. He has spoken about his kids on the podcast and on other platforms.

Loons has stated that he has never worked a full day of work. He once had an office role as part of his probation but left midway through the day. He has spoken about never having the drive to train towards a vocation while in prison. He now lives in a council flat in Redbridge.

Loons is a Liverpool FC supporter.

Loons does not eat pork and has described the lengths he has gone to in order to avoid eating it in prison.

In June 2018 Loons took part in United Against Knife Crime match organised by then future podcaster and Hackney Wick founder Bobby Kasanga. Also involved in the match was Dave, Headine One, Not3s, Dappy, Youngs Telfon, Don Strapzy, Yxng Bane, Kojo Funds, Ambush, Margs, Mercston, Joe Black, Don-EE, J2K, Tricky and 23 Unofficial. Loons wasn’t able to take part in the 2019 follow-up as he was in prison in Isle of Man at the time.

 

Loons’ Criminal History

Loons has stated that he has been to prison at least 11 times. Most of his criminal activity was based around commercial robberies. This activity has including schemes to steal cash from banks, bookmakers, post offices, bureaux de changes. Loons has confirmed that he hasn’t taken part in street robberies or residential burglaries.

Loons initially began with petty theft. His first arrest came age 11 after stealing a WWF video from Blockbusters. Loons has stated that he was arrested and bailed many times in his teens until his first prison sentence age 15, when he was sent to Feltham for between two and three weeks.

Loons’ first sentence came as a result of a police house search relating to a case with his older brother. The Police found cash from a robbery and denied him bail.

Loons took part in a number of robberies in the late 1990s and has stated that he used to take part in this activity with Tricky, amongst other local peers. He has admitted to once stealing money from a Provident loan collector.

In August 1999 Loons was 17 when he arrested for a robbery at Going Places in Billericay in Basildon, Essex. He evaded the police for several hours, but was caught after a chase where he was found in a church tower in Romford. Loons was sentenced in 2000, serving three years and nine months in prison before his release in 2003.

As well as robberies, Loons has been arrested for a number of different crimes including kidnap. Loons has spent time in prisons including Peterborough and Pentonville. He has a driving while disqualified conviction, he was once arrested shortly before a holiday for being a flight risk and in 2011 he was a co-defendant on an attempted revenge case with No Behaviour Podcast regulars Beano and professional footballer Bradley Woods-Garness (known as Woodzy).

Loons once evaded prison time after coughing up drugs at a police station. The arresting officers agreed to a £170 fine in exchange for Loons not pursuing charges on them for attacking him at the station. He ultimately didn’t pay the fine and spent 10 days in prison.

Loons avoided prison from 2010 until he was apprehended in 2019 in the Isle of Man while attempting to smuggle cannabis from England to the island. He was caught with almost £69,000 of the class B substance and plead guilty to possessing with the intent to supply.

Loons was most recently released from incarceration after a nine-month sentence in Isle of Man Prison in December 2019. The following month No Behaviour Podcast was launched.

As a result of his crimes, Loons was unable to enter any physical bank branch in the UK between 2002 and 2022, and has a lifetime ban from possessing a firearm, firework or replica gun.

During one of his prison sentences, Loons spent time with Crazy Titch, someone he previously had issues with as a teenager. In 2024 Crazy Titch appeared as a guest on No Behaviour Podcast.

 

Loons FAQs

What is Loons’ nickname?

Loons got the nickname Loons after he stole a double decker 38 bus from a bus depot.

While he was a more active footballer, he also went by the nicknames Black Shane and Bliggsy. As a podcaster he uses various nicknames including:

  • Fruitpunch Papi (based on Drake’s Instagram name)
  • Dr. Dre (based on his real name Andre; coincidentally his brother’s name is Warren – as per Dr. Dre and Warren G)
  • Super Necessary
  • Yxng Rottweiler
  • Heartbreak Kid
  • Jawn Dillinger

 

Where is Loons from?

Loons grew up in east London, and grew up on Pembury Estate and London Fields. His mother is of Jamaican and St. Lucian heritage.

 

How old is Loons?

Loons was born in September 1981.

 

Is Loons a dad?

Loons is a father to two children, including an adult daughter.

 

Who owns Yxng Rottweiler?

In 2021 Loons formed his Yxng Rottweiler Ltd company through which he sells his Yxng Rottweiler clothing.

 

Is Loons in Mashtown?

Mashtown was a Hackney-based rap collective that operated between 2003 and 2010. Loons is not a rapper but appeared on Mashtown mixtapes in the mid 2000s as the host.

Loons grew up with a number of Mashtown members. He has shown how his relationships with former members T-Mac, Hypo and Tricky has continued since the early 2000s by having them appear on No Behaviour Podcast, along with former member Margs.

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