Name	Jamie Reynolds
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Place of Birth	London, England, UK
Famous for	England

Jamie Reynolds grew up in Bournemouth and Southampton in his early twenties. He dropped out of studying philosophy at Greenwich University to work in a record shop, before moving to London and being made redundant. He met James Righton and Simon Taylor-Davis, who was his girlfriend's roommate. Righton had been working as a teacher at the time. All three had previously played in various other groups, including Reef and Oasis cover bands. Simon and James grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, where they attended the same school. They shared a house with members of Pull Tiger Tail in New Cross, London, briefly playing a gig together as 'Hollywood Is a Verb' in 2004. Live tracks from the gig are available on the band's MySpace page.

James taught Simon how to play guitar, and with Reynolds' redundancy money they bought a studio kit. They began recording and performing live under their early guise of "Klaxons (Not Centaurs)", including an appearance at the 2006 Camden Crawl. The name came from a quote from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's futurism text The Futurist Manifesto. Initially the band played with drummer Finnigan Kidd in 2005, until Kidd left to play with fellow New Cross band, Hatcham Social. The band added repacement live drummer Steffan Halperin, with the band announcing him as an official member in an interview in Prefix Magazine in early 2007. Halperin became a semi-official fourth member of the band, being listed on Klaxons' MySpace page and present in several interviews. He remains mostly absent from the band's music videos, appearing only in the early video "Atlantis to Interzone" and briefly in the 2007 re-release of "Gravity's Rainbow".