Klaxon Breaks Leg Stage Diving, Band Postpones Gigs
Some might even say their Australian "leg" is Klax-off

At a gig over the weekend at Angoulême, France's Garden Nef Party festival, Klaxons man Jamie Reynolds (he would be the Klaxon with the second-funniest hair) busted his shin something fierce. According to a MySpace bulletin, Reynolds "drastically misjudged the [approximately] 12' distance between the stage and the grass" during a stage dive, and broke his leg. You know, unless the verdict is "nah, this isn't happening," any judgment made about a 12 foot jump is probably a misjudgment.

Reynolds, now requiring bed rest and a three-inch plate to hold his tibia in place, has forced the recent Mercury Prize nominees to postpone a string of Australian gigs they'd lined up for next week. Rescheduling should be underway shortly-- and all non-Aussie gigs, including a bunch with Simian Mobile Disco, appear to still be on-- but Reynolds nevertheless wrote that he's "gutted" about the whole experience. "Gutted," of course, is British for "really digging the spongebaths."

Klaxoff, then Klaxons:

08-02 Sydney, Australia - The Forum
08-05 Byron Bay, Australia - Splendour in the Grass
08-07 Melbourne, Australia - Billboard
08-08 Perth, Australia - Capital
08-11 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08-17 Salzburg, Austria - Frequency Festival
08-18 Efurt, Germany - Highfields Festival
08-19 Flevoland, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08-21 Malmo, Sweden - Malmo Festival
08-24 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-26 Reading, England - Reading Festival
11-08 London, England - TBA
11-09 Paris, France - Zenith *
11-10 Gent, Belgium - I Love Techno Festival
11-11 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
11-12 Hamburg, Germany - Grunspan
11-15 Cologne, Germany - Gloria
11-16 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
11-17 Zurich, Switzerland - Rohstofflage
11-18 Munich, Germany - Kleine Elserhalle
11-20 Rome, Italy - Qube
11-21 Torino, Hiroshima Mon Amour
11-22 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
11-23 Lille, France - Le Zenith
11-25 Dublin, Ireland - Ambassador $^
11-26 Manchester, England - Apollo $^
11-27 Edinburgh, Scotland - Corn Exchange $^
11-28 Newcastle, England - Academy $^
11-30 Southampton, England - Guildhall $
12-01 Leeds, England - University $
12-02 Cardiff, Wales - University $
12-04 Birmingham, England - Academy $
12-05 London, England - Brixton Academy $
12-06 London, England - Brighton Academy *^

* with Justice
$ with Simian Mobile Disco
^ with Crystal Castles