 Klaxons later declared they were "not" new rave, describing it as a "joke that's got out of hand" and that the term was originally ironic, not serious.In reaction to the media overkill of the "genre", Klaxons banned the use of glowsticks at their gigs in April 2007, saying that "We kept getting asked to explain it.The whole idea of new rave was to take the piss out of the media by making them talk about something that didn't exist, just for our own amusement.