Due to frontman Jamie Reynolds' broken leg The Klaxons have been forced to cancel their Australian gigs.The singer/bassist, 26, broke his leg after leaping from the stage during the group's sex at the Garden Nef Festival in Angouleme, France on Saturday (21Jul07). After cancelling Sunday's (22Jul07) gig in Brittany, France, the group have now confirmed they will have to cancel their Australian concerts in Sydney and Perth on 2 and 8 August (07) respectively. Reynolds writes on the group's MySpace page, "For those of you that the story of last week's festival in Angouleme hasn't yet seeped through I'll give you the shortened and less painful version."As per usual I jumped from the stage on the final song... only this time I'd drastically misjudged the approx 12 foot distance between the stage and the grass and landed with a larger than expected velocity on my right foot."The result has left me in hospital until they let me out in an hour's time with a broken tibia (the bone between the knee and the foot) and a 3 inch plate to hold the break in place."The doctors say that if I spend the next two week's with the foot elevated then there is a chance of a recovery without further complications but the result is that we've had to cancel next week's Australian tour until some point in the future."

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