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<title>New Album - Departure</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;New Single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; Release 3 March.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Debut Album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; Release 17th March&lt;br /&gt;
You'll be happy to know the wait is finally (almost) over. &lt;br /&gt;
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The official release date for my debut album &amp;quot;Departure&amp;quot; is March the 17th so make sure you go out and grab yourselves a copy. &lt;br /&gt;
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On this album: &lt;br /&gt;
I hired a 30piece string Orchestra (video footage coming soon) &lt;br /&gt;
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Shot videos in London, Canada, and Los Angeles.&lt;br /&gt;
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Produced, Wrote, Recorded and Engineered every song.&lt;br /&gt;
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Performed, Sang and Rapped.&lt;br /&gt;
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Played every Instrument.&lt;br /&gt;
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Collaborated with U.S. superstar Rapper Erick Sermon and UK Electro Pop Diva Luciana.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just Imagine what I'm gonna do next!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taio in the Studio</title>
<description>Taio is currently in the studio writing &amp;amp; producing for Esseme, the first signing to Justin Timberlake&amp;rsquo;s new label, and is working with Mark Ronson prot&amp;eacute;g&amp;eacute; Daniel Merriweather on his debut album. Taio has also written &amp;amp; produced the debut single for new Island Def Jam US artist Vawn.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taio's Ras Kwame Session</title>
<description>&lt;p class=&quot;blogSubject&quot;&gt;Taio's Maida Vale session and interview with Ras Kwame tx'd on Radio 1 yesterday.&amp;nbsp; Hit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/raskwame/&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; to listen.&amp;nbsp; Skip to about an hour and 15 mins in&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>'Come On Girl' Is Comin' On Strong</title>
<description>Seems like everyone is feeling Taio's new single 'Come On Girl'.....&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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...the track is getting major spins from Radio 1, 1XTra, Kiss, Galaxy, Capital &amp;amp; Choice who have all found space for it on their playlists. Plus the slamming new video is getting it's dues on The Box, The Hits ,Smash Hits and Kiss channels and the singles not even due to hit the streets until March 3rd. The hugely anticipated album 'Departure' hits the streets March 17th.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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Meanwhile Taio's also been getting love from the US too with his track 'She's Like A Star' which has been picking up some significant taste plays on HOT97 which is one of New York's leading radio stations.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Come On Girl sleeve</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;So you know what your'e looking for here's the sleeve for Taio's new single 'Come on Girl' out March 3rd.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>More Radio Love</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;After being DJ Scott Mill&amp;rsquo;s one and only Record Of The Week last week on Radio 1, Fern &amp;amp; Reggie are now stepping up to make Taio&amp;rsquo;s new single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; their Weekend Anthem - this weekend. The love out there for Taio just continues to grow!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; will be available to download from Feb 25. CD follows March 3.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Makin' noise everywhere</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio&amp;rsquo;s new video for &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; is setting a serious pace on the TV video charts right now and the track itself is this weeks 11th most heard track in the country on UK radio!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The single is not even available until 25 Feb (digital) and 3 March (CD) but the good news is the banging Wideboys, Sticky and Delinquent remixes which have been released early are going down such a storm that their sales alone have already seen Taio within site of chart.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s all hotting up people&amp;hellip;..make sure you don&amp;rsquo;t miss Taio at the weekend on BBC 2&amp;rsquo;s Sound show on Sat afternoon at 3.40.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taio's Acoustic Performance</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.interoute.com/?id=5e207f69-4efe-4076-9d18-9fb33b4a1696&amp;amp;delivery=stream&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; to check out Taio doing a brilliant acoustic performance of 'Come On Girl' last week on Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed show.&lt;/p&gt;
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And if that's not enough &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YvGLnqiIKI&quot;&gt;here's &lt;/a&gt;some more acoustic action from Taio straight from the man's very own bedroom !&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taio Live</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;With word growing fast on Taio it&amp;rsquo;s time to introduce the man LIVE to the new peeps coming on board - Taio has announced he&amp;rsquo;ll be playing a headline gig next month on Wed March 19 at London&amp;rsquo;s Bush Hall and if you want to make sure you get a piece of the live action click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?artist=taio+cruz&amp;amp;filler1=see&amp;amp;filler3=id1univer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; now to bag some tickets.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile don&amp;rsquo;t forget next week sees the release of the download for Taio&amp;rsquo;s new single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; whilst the remix package which is available now through iTunes is already at No. 18 on their chart !!!!&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The man's on fire…..</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;In a awesome display of remix power the wideboys version of &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; climbs up the chart today to No. 16 on iTunes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With the download for the single not even available until Monday there&amp;rsquo;s no better indicator that people are feelin&amp;rsquo; this tune.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile Taio&amp;rsquo;s been keeping up his end, check out this brilliant full live band performance&amp;nbsp;at the weekend on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/sound/shows/show15/video/#059&quot;&gt;BBC Sound&lt;/a&gt; of Taio doing his thing live. (His clip is about 9mins into the show).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile Brits night gave Taio a real kick when he spotted a billboard of himself on the way to the Brits party. Check out his &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;amp;friendID=47764092&amp;amp;blogID=360125995&quot;&gt;myspace blog&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; to see a man appreciating the moment he&amp;rsquo;s in.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Download ‘Come On Girl' Now!</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;The download for Taio&amp;rsquo;s new single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=273718338&amp;amp;s=143444&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; NOW.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;After a long wait and a lot of love the download for &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; becomes available today and, as a killer intro yesterday the remixes slammed into the main singles chart at No. 23&amp;hellip; which just goes to show how much respect there is for this tune already.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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CD and 12&amp;rdquo; will be available in store from next Mon (March 3) - pre-order &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/simpleSearch.do?searchUID=&amp;amp;pGroupID=2&amp;amp;adultFlag=false&amp;amp;simpleSearchString=taio+cruz+come+on+girl&amp;amp;primaryID=2&amp;amp;btnSubmitSearch.x=18&amp;amp;btnSubmitSearch.y=11&quot;&gt;here&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Boyz II Men</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio will be joining the most successful RnB acts of all time when he performs live as special guest of Boyz II Men on their UK tour.&amp;nbsp; Boyz II Men have sold over 60 million albums and have scooped 8 Grammy Awards in their career.&amp;nbsp; These global superstars are on fire to have new UK superstar Taio supporting them.&amp;nbsp; Catch him at the following shows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Monday 24th March 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;London Hammersmith Apollo&lt;/p&gt;
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Tuesday 25th March 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cardiff St. David&amp;rsquo;s Hall&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thursday 27th March 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bournemouth International Centre&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Friday 28th March 2008&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brighton Centre&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Saturday 29th March 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oxford New Theatre&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Sunday 30th March 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Southend Cliffs Pavilion&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Tuesday 1st April 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nottingham Royal Centre&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Wednesday 2nd April 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Birmingham Symphony Hall&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thursday 3rd April 2008&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Manchester Apollo&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>New Single Out Now</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Taio&amp;rsquo;s brilliant new single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; is OUT NOW! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Released today on CD &amp;amp; 12&amp;rdquo; the formats include brilliant remixes from Wideboys, Delinquent &amp;amp; Naughty Boy which have already helped chart the single at No. 11 this week on downloads alone !!! This record is hot. Get your hands on a piece now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Biggest Party Of The Year</title>
<description>Taio will be joining the massive 1Xtra party in Coventry on March 22. Set to be the biggest live black music event of the year the line-up includes Akon, Kelly Rowland &amp;amp; Estelle. If you want to find out how you can be there too head over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/1xtralive/&quot;&gt;1Xtra. &lt;/a&gt;Meanwhile click &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=e_G3D-PSNcw &quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to check out a short clip of Taio in the studio on a nice vibe with Radio 1&amp;rsquo;s Nihal. &lt;br /&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5 Smash and Get Ready For The Album….</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; climbed to an incredible No.5 on the UK singles chart on Sunday.&amp;nbsp; It confirms Taio&amp;rsquo;s status as THE most exciting breakthrough UK RnB artist on the scene.&amp;nbsp; Thank you to every for their support &amp;ndash; everywhere Taio goes people are feeling his music.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get ready for the album&amp;hellip;..&amp;rsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; hits the stores next Monday (March 17th) and exclusive to HMV is a special 2nd disc featuring 5 tracks remixed by Delinquent.&amp;nbsp; Pre-order it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&amp;amp;sku=777709&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Catch up with Taio&amp;rsquo;s interview with Lucio on Capital Radio last week where he hung out at Formula 1 driver Joe Macari's Flagship Ferrari and Maserati garage in east London. Watch the video &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/Show.asx?Episode=37464&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Album Out Now + Onstage Timings</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio Cruz&amp;rsquo;s HOT new album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; is OUT NOW.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The album features his banging hit single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; as well as the massive club hits &amp;lsquo;I Just Wanna Know&amp;rsquo; and &amp;lsquo;Moving On&amp;rsquo; and as an exclusive to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&amp;amp;sku=777709&quot;&gt;HMV&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; you can get your hands on a free special 2nd disc version which includes 5 tracks remixed by Bassline Godfathers Delinquent. Plus, once you&amp;rsquo;ve got the CD album you can use it &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.digitalinsert.com/competition.cfm?promotion=464&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to download the hidden track &amp;lsquo;Stupid Superstition&amp;rsquo; absolutely free.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile if you are planning on seeing Taio at his sold out London Bush Hall gig on Wed night (19 Mar) he&amp;rsquo;ll be on stage at 8.30pm.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taio Live Tonight</title>
<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Still riding high with his banging single &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; Taio is playing his sold out London gig tonight at Bush Hall where he&amp;rsquo;ll be on stage at 8.30pm. He&amp;rsquo;s used to killing it live on the club scene and now Taios looking forward to serving up a full-on live show. If you missed out on tickets for tonight&amp;rsquo;s ditty, catch him on tour with Boyz II Men across the UK from next Monday. Meanwhile here&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.capitalradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=565955&quot;&gt;10 things&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; you might never have known about Taio.&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Live At 1Xtra</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio served up a sizzling live performance at Radio 1Xtra&amp;rsquo;s mega gig over the weekend. Keeping company with the likes of Akon, Chris Brown &amp;amp; Kelly Rowland Taio warmed up a freezing Coventry crowd with a hot performance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Click here to see some shots, footage and interview snippets of the whole shebang. Meanwhile take a look at the chart where Taio&amp;rsquo;s debut album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; has just slammed into the Top 20 !&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>London Scala Show Announced</title>
<description>Following his triumphant sold out Gig at London&amp;rsquo;s Bush Hall last week, Taio has announced a further show at the Scala on April 10th.&amp;nbsp; Tickets for the gig are on sale now &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=TAIO+CRUZ&amp;amp;n|artist=null&amp;amp;resultsperpage=20&amp;amp;filler1=see&amp;amp;filler2=art-srch&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Taio With Omarion &amp; Ginuwine</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Taio has announced he&amp;rsquo;ll be teaming up with Grammy-nominated R&amp;amp;B star Omarion and multi platinum artist Ginuwine for a one off show on Friday April 11 at The Works venue in Birmingham. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;This roadblock event also features some of the hottest DJs from around the UK and is setting itself up as a wild one. For full details head over to the venue&amp;rsquo;s official site &lt;a title=&quot;http://www.theworksbirmingham.com/&quot; href=&quot;http://www.theworksbirmingham.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.theworksbirmingham.com/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Word On The New Single</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000080&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; color: navy&quot;&gt;After storming into the nations psyche with &amp;lsquo;Come On Girl&amp;rsquo; Taio announces the new single to be taken from his debut album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; is &amp;lsquo; I Can Be&amp;rsquo;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000080&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; color: navy&quot;&gt;Already making waves with the album lovers &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is an anthemic banger which will be doing it&amp;rsquo;s single thing on May 26. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000080&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; color: navy&quot;&gt;Remix, format and video details coming soon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Greatest album of all time?</title>
<description>Does 'Departure' rank as your favourite album of all time or is it in your Top 5 Albums ? For the first time ever you can have your say in a Global Poll to find the Greatest Albums of all time @ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pollthepeople.com&quot;&gt;www.pollthepeople.com&lt;/a&gt; . So if you&amp;rsquo;d like to vote for Taio's album in your Top 5 and also be connected to people who match some or all of your choices so you can discover great new music click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pollthepeople.com&quot;&gt;www.pollthepeople.com&lt;/a&gt; to take part.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Live Date</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio will be serving up some more live action next month with the announcement of a new London gig at the Scala venue on 23rd May. Don&amp;rsquo;t miss out on the chance to see his hot live show. Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=TAIO+CRUZ&amp;amp;n|artist=null&amp;amp;resultsperpage=20&amp;amp;filler1=see&amp;amp;filler2=art-srch &quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for tickets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Taio&amp;rsquo;s new single &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is released the Monday after the show so it&amp;rsquo;s bound to be a gig worth celebrating.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>TV News</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Taio's building up to the release of his new single 'I Can Be' on May 26 and his latest headline gig at London's Scala on May 23. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;First up look out for him performing on Channel 4's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channel4.com/music/ontv/N/nokiagreenroom/&quot;&gt;Green Room&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 18 and 24. Plus make a date to tune into Jo Whiley's legendary Live Lounge on Radio 1 May 28 to hear Taio serving up some real time live action and&amp;nbsp;he'll be featuring in a 'Future of RnB' article shortly in The Independent newspaper&amp;nbsp;details of which we'll lay out for you shortly. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Check back for single pre-order and format details soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>‘I Can Be' hotting up</title>
<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;The word on Taio&amp;rsquo;s new single &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is hotting up. Set to be released in stores on May 26 it&amp;rsquo;s already making it&amp;rsquo;s presence felt on the iTunes chart.&lt;br /&gt;
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Taio&amp;rsquo;s got plenty coming up to make sure ears are open to this top new tune.&amp;nbsp; In the meantime &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQRSOQlsyYs &quot;&gt;here&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;a little reminder of his recent show at Ronnie Scotts performing a sharp version of &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you cant wait for the CD version on May 26th, &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is available to download now on &lt;a href=&quot;http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=275819599&amp;amp;id=275819474&amp;amp;s=143444&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;and if you haven&amp;rsquo;t heard the hot new remix featuring Estelle check it out&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=SF8sm8IP9SQ&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The Estelle remix of 'I Can Be' is available exclusively to iTunes from May 19th.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Taio On Channel 4 This Sunday</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Keep your eyes open this weekend to check out Taio performing his brand new single &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; on Channel 4's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channel4.com/music/ontv/N/nokiagreenroom/  &quot;&gt;Green Room&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;this Sunday (May 18). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;The show is broadcast on Channel 4 at 1.35pm and also features the likes of Santogold, Cage the Elephant and The Charlatans.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Win tickets to see live at the Scala</title>
<description>Taio is gearing himself up for Friday's headline show at London's Scala venue. It's this week's hottest ticket and we are giving you the chance to win one of ten pairs to see the show live.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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All you have to do to be in with a chance is answer this little ditty correctly:&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Which Rihanna hit single did Taio record first?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
a) Umbrella&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
b) Shut Up and Drive&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
c) Please Don't Stop The Music&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/click/1349291-58856/zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/reg/reg.pl?id=1399-58828&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to enter The competition closes Thursday May 22 10am so get involved.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Wake Up Call</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Set you alarms early to catch Taio performing &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; on Freshly Squeezed from 7am this Thurs on Channel 4 plus check him out performing again on BBC Sound on Saturday Beeb 2 at 1.15pm (repeated on Sunday BBC3 7pm).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Competition closes tomorrow at 10am to win tickets for Taio&amp;rsquo;s show at the London Scala! Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/reg/reg.pl?id=1399-58828&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to enter.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Download ‘I Can Be' Now</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Taio Cruz&amp;rsquo;s scorching new single &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is available to download NOW. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Taken from his hit album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo;, &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is getting big love from all quarters and you can get your hands on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=23708&amp;amp;a=1311764&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fphobos.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewAlbum%3Fi%3D280636755%26id%3D280636752%26s%3D143444%26partnerId%3D2003&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; now along with the EXCLUSIVE new remix version featuring No. 1 UK star Estelle at &lt;a href=&quot;http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=23708&amp;amp;a=1311764&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fphobos.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewAlbum%3Fi%3D280636755%26id%3D280636752%26s%3D143444%26partnerId%3D2003&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; right this very second. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Meanwhile Taio is gearing himself up for Friday&amp;rsquo;s headline show at London&amp;rsquo;s Scala venue. It&amp;rsquo;s this week&amp;rsquo;s hottest ticket so get down there if you can. For now click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channel4.com/services/videoplayer/popup.jsp?name=music_nokia_green_room&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to check out Taio on Channel 4&amp;rsquo;s Green Room kicking up a storm live when he stopped by the studios on Sunday. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio took us backstage at BBC Sound at the weekend, explaining the inspiration behind his new single &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; plus what turned him on as a kid on TV.&amp;nbsp; Did you know he had an obsession with Thundercats?&amp;nbsp; Watch Taio explain all again now at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/sound/shows/show29/video/#103&quot;&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/sound/shows/show29/video/#103&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Plus make a date with Taio and Jo Whiley live on Radio 1 this Wednesday when Taio will be in the Live Lounge studio performing the single and a special cover.&amp;nbsp; Showtime from 10am.&amp;nbsp; Listen live online at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/&quot;&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you didn&amp;rsquo;t have tickets for Taio at the London Scala last week.&amp;nbsp; Check out this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pfQzO9enLo&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; clip of him performing Snow Patrol&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;Chasing Cars&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Live Lounge Session</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/livelounge/artist/080528_taiocruz.shtml&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to check out Taio&amp;rsquo;s brilliant session and interview yesterday with Jo Whiley on Radio 1. Taio performed his brand new single &amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; and a brilliant cover of The Pigeon Detectives &amp;lsquo;This Is An Emergency&amp;rsquo;. Check it out now plus you can see some backstage photos too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;I Can Be&amp;rsquo; is out now. Get your hands on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=282;2;-1;-1&amp;amp;sku=810326&quot;&gt;CD&lt;/a&gt; which includes remixes and a brand new bonus track&amp;nbsp;and look out on &lt;a href=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=280636755&amp;amp;id=280636752&amp;amp;s=143444&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt; for the exclusive new remix version of the track which features No. 1 UK star Estelle.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 20:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Backstage on the Boyz II Men tour</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio joined most successful RnB acts of all time earlier this year when he performed live as special guest of Boyz II Men on their UK tour. Check out Taio TV now for some exclusive backstage footage of Taio preparing to open for his idols at the London Hammersmith Apollo.&amp;nbsp; Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.taiocruzmusic.co.uk&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to check out Taio TV including Taio promo videos, live footage and interviews - you can also choose your favourite videos and create your own playlist.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Win tickets to see Taio live at the iTunes Festival</title>
<description>Taio is live at the iTunes Festival in London on July 25th.&amp;nbsp; We've got 175 pairs to give away.&amp;nbsp; If you'd like to be there, click &lt;a href=&quot;http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/reg/reg.pl?id=1399-60487&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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<title>New Single Announced</title>
<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Taio Cruz is back with a new single &amp;lsquo;She&amp;rsquo;s Like A Star&amp;rsquo; from his hit album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo;. The hot new track will be released August 11th and we&amp;rsquo;ll have all the essential news on formats and downloads for you soon. Having written, arranged, performed and produced &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; himself Taio is currently in Philadelphia working on new music for Britney, Brandy and Justin Timberlake but you&amp;rsquo;ll still be able to catch him live in the UK this summer when he heads out to serve it up live once again.&lt;br /&gt;
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August Live Dates&lt;br /&gt;
Sun 10 London Mela at Gunnersbury Park&lt;br /&gt;
Tues 12 Sheffield Academy 2&lt;br /&gt;
Wed 13 Glasgow ABC 2&lt;br /&gt;
Fri 15 Birmingham Academy 2&lt;br /&gt;
Sat 16 Stafford V Festival&lt;br /&gt;
Sun 17 Chelmsford V Festival&lt;br /&gt;
Tues 19 Manchester&amp;nbsp;Academy 3&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Complete Your Taio Album With iTunes</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve already discovered some of Taio Cruz&amp;rsquo;s brilliant music with iTunes here&amp;rsquo;s your chance to get you hands on his debut album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; without having to pay full price.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Basically when you buy &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; with iTunes you pay album price (&amp;pound;5.99) minus the cost of Taio tracks you have already purchased. Simple eh?&amp;nbsp; Check out &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; on iTunes &lt;a href=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=275819474&amp;amp;s=143444&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile Taio has been announced as one of the headliners for this year&amp;rsquo;s iTunes Festival on July 25 in London with support act Jay Sean and London&amp;rsquo;s Koko venue. Plus he&amp;rsquo;s back with a hot new single &amp;lsquo;She&amp;rsquo;s Like A Star&amp;rsquo;, is released on August 11th and features a sexy video appearance from Hollyoaks babe Roxanne McKee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The video is set to be on your screens very soon, &amp;lsquo;til then catch Taio serving it up live this summer in the UK at :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;London Mela at Gunnersbury Park &amp;ndash; Aug 10&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sheffield Academy 2 &amp;ndash; Aug 12&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Glasgow ABC 2 &amp;ndash; Aug 13&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Birmingham Academy 2 &amp;ndash; Aug 15&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stafford V Festival &amp;ndash; Aug 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chelmsford V Festival &amp;ndash; Aug 17&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Manchester Academy &amp;ndash; Aug 19&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Not only a great music writer but also able to turn his talent to the literary side too, Taio has got himself involved with &amp;lsquo;Paper Cuts&amp;rsquo; which is an initiative to get young people engaged in writing. Supported by ChildLine and Spinebreakers.co.uk, &amp;lsquo;Paper Cuts&amp;rsquo; is calling for young people to be part of a nationwide writing competition by writing their own &amp;lsquo;Paper Cut&amp;rsquo; - which is&amp;nbsp; a 100 word piece of fiction, based on the question &amp;lsquo;What Matters to You? Some of the best will be in with a chance of getting their work published by Penguin and the winner will have their 100 words recorded by a celebrity and hosted on the Spinebreakers website.&amp;nbsp; To found out more head over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/series/spinebreakers&quot;&gt;Spinebreakers&lt;/a&gt; and take a look at Taio&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;Paper Cut&amp;rsquo; there too.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Hear Taio DJ on Capital Radio</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/player/default.asp?s=1&amp;amp;e=55807&quot;&gt;here&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt; to listen up to Taio taking over the decks for the night at London&amp;rsquo;s Capital radio where he kicks back with Johnny Vaughan and takes him on a musical journey with a desert island disco. Top tunes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check it out.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>7 song iTunes Festival e.p. Buy now from iTunes</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;Taio performed a blinding show to a packed out audience at London&amp;rsquo;s Koko as part of the iTunes festival last month and now a 7 track live e.p. from the concert is available on Itunes. Click &lt;a title=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=286678708&amp;amp;s=143444&quot; target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/080807155700&quot;&gt;&lt;font title=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=286678708&amp;amp;s=143444&quot; color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span title=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=286678708&amp;amp;s=143444&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext&quot;&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to buy.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://images.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/ituneslive/TaioCruz_EP.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<description>Taio will be at the V festival this weekend hitting up one of the last great festival crowds of the summer. Check him out on Saturday on the JJB Arena Stage (Staffordshire Site) at 12.40pm with the likes of Sam Sparro, Travis and Hot Chip before heading over on Sunday to the Chelmsford site to do it all again (same stage same time). You can listen out for tons of coverage of the Festival on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virginradio.co.uk/&quot;&gt;Virgin Radio&lt;/a&gt; and watch a highlights package on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channel4.com/music/&quot;&gt;Channel 4&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on Saturday night.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Transmission Tonight</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Check out and tune into tonight&amp;rsquo;s Transmission on Channel 4.&amp;nbsp; Taio will be in the studio performing new single &amp;lsquo;She&amp;rsquo;s Like A Star and dueting with Gabriella Climi.&amp;nbsp; Showtime&amp;nbsp; 00.10am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;She&amp;rsquo;s like A Star&amp;rsquo; hits the streets this Monday on CD backed with hot remixes from Cahill and Jim Beanz plus you may have heard the wicked remix Feat Busta Rhymes &amp;amp; Sugababes.&amp;nbsp; Check it out &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.interoute.com/?id=e0261aa3-83f4-4e5e-8b21-fb02c0a9705d&amp;amp;delivery=stream&quot;&gt;here&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and buy it from iTunes &lt;a href=&quot;http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/click/1349291-63330/zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/080812095211&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; .&amp;nbsp; You can also download She&amp;rsquo;s Like A Star radio edit from iTunes now &lt;a href=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=275819758&amp;amp;id=275819474&amp;amp;s=143444 &quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>She's Like a Star - out now!</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio&amp;rsquo;s amazing new single &amp;lsquo;She&amp;rsquo;s Like A Star&amp;rsquo; is out now.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;rsquo;s one of the most requested songs from the &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; album and to date has topped over 2.5 million myspace plays and thanks to the sizzling video featuring Holyoaks babe Roxanne McKee, over 1.5 million youtube plays.&amp;nbsp; Get it from HMV &lt;a href=&quot;http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&amp;amp;sku=844819&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; featuring mixes from Cahill and Jim Beanz or get the full remix e.p. including further remixes by Dubwise Baseline Frequency, DJ Naughty &amp;amp; Jeremy Sylvestor from iTunes &lt;a href=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=287305023&amp;amp;s=143444&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; You can also download the single version from&lt;a href=&quot;http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/080818165649&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt; and the massive Sugababes remix featuring US Hip Hop star Busta Rhymes &lt;a href=&quot;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=287681583&amp;amp;s=143444&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After a blistering performance at V Festival last weekend tonight Taio takes on a Manchester crowd at the Academy 3.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Taio's Live Thing</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Taio loved taking his live show out on the road earlier this month. As well as flooring the crowd at the V festival he also took up headline duties with shows in Glasgow, Manchester and Sheffield.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And to mark it we&amp;rsquo;ve put together a few pics and snips. Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesparnold/sets/72157606697170513/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gigwise.com/photos/45347/taio-cruz-rocks-the-house-in-sheffield&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for some Sheffield Pictures, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/vhazza/sets/72157606710902562/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for Glasgow shots and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/taio-cruz-academy-2-sheffield-894270.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for an review from the Independent.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Single Announcement</title>
<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Taio caps an amazing year with the news he&amp;rsquo;ll be releasing a brand new single &amp;lsquo;I Just Wanna Know&amp;rsquo; on Nov 10.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;rsquo;s the track that secured Taio&amp;rsquo;s record deal &amp;lsquo;way back when' and it&amp;rsquo;s arguably the most essential tune of his career so far. We&amp;rsquo;ll have format, mix and pre-order in coming soon&amp;hellip;. meanwhile more good news is that his debut album &amp;lsquo;Departure&amp;rsquo; has now been certified GOLD in the UK.&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Taio Joins Ne-Yo</title>
<description>Taio will be teaming up with US superstar Ne-Yo later this month when he joins him on Sept 22 at London&amp;rsquo;s Hammersmith Apollo for a one off show. He&amp;rsquo;ll be on stage as Ne-Yo&amp;rsquo;s special guest and after a summer of touring he&amp;rsquo;s ready to rip it up once again. For tickets and full details click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/artist/963072/?search_redirect=taio%20cruz&amp;amp;tm_link=tm_homeA_header_search &quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Taio At GQ Awards</title>
<description>Last week Taio was a guest at GQ&amp;rsquo;s Man Of The Year Awards where he joined the cream of the stylish and smart at this pre-fashion week essential style event. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.islandrecords.co.uk/content/taiocruz/gq.jpg&quot;&gt;Check him&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;kicking back with an eclectic mix of folks including Foo Fighters Dave Grohl and Keane&amp;rsquo;s Tom Chaplin.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Taio Gets Mobo Nomination</title>
<description>The nominations for this year&amp;rsquo;s Mobo Awards have been announced and the good news is Taio has been nominated in the &amp;lsquo;Best UK Male&amp;rsquo; category where he&amp;rsquo;s up against the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Jay Sean, Sway and Wiley in a public vote. &lt;br /&gt;
The awards take place at London's Wembley Arena on October 15 and if you want to make sure Taio gets his dues head over to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobo.com&quot;&gt;MOBO&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;site right now and cast your vote for him.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Motown 50</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Motown Records, Universal Music are releasing the album Motown 50 on 1st December. For the first time ever the public can vote for their favourite Motown tracks and the album will be compiled purely from the top 50 tracks chosen by YOU. To take part simply go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pollthepeople.com/motown50&quot;&gt;www.pollthepeople.com/motown50&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; select your Top 5 Motown songs, register your vote and your choices will be entered into the GREATEST MOTOWN SONGS poll.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Poll will also feature Celebrity Top 5 selections which will count towards the final tally of votes..so make sure you keep checking back to see which Celebrities have voted and what their choices are ! If you&amp;rsquo;re not sure where to start check out this list of legendary Motown Artists you can choose from - Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross &amp;amp; The Supremes, Michael Jackson &amp;amp; The Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson &amp;amp; The Miracles, Lionel Richie, The Commodores, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Martha And The Vandellas, Edwin Starr, Junior Walker &amp;amp; The Allstars, Jimmy Ruffin, The Isley Brothers, Rick James &amp;amp; many more !&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Single Hots Up + Stage Times Tonight</title>
<description>Taio Cruz will release a brand new single &amp;lsquo;I Just Wanna Know&amp;rsquo; on Nov 10 and already the track is getting serious love from radio as it gets added to both Capital Radio&amp;rsquo;s and Galaxy&amp;rsquo;s playlists. We&amp;rsquo;ll have full single info coming your way soon meanwhile Taio&amp;rsquo;s doing his thing tonight live on stage with Ne-Yo at the Hammersmith Apollo. He&amp;rsquo;ll be on stage at 7.45pm so make sure you don&amp;rsquo;t miss him if you are heading down there&amp;hellip;. and don&amp;rsquo;t forget he&amp;rsquo;s earned himself a nod in the best male category for the 2008 Mobos. Head over and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobo.com/?page=703&quot;&gt;vote&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for Taio is you feel like giving him some support. &lt;br /&gt;
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>UK November Tour Announced</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Following headline shows in Glasgow, Manchester and Sheffield, a standout festival performance at V and and special guest of Ne-Yo earlier this week, Taio has just announced a string of further headline UK shows this November. Tickets are on sale now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mon 10 BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2 &lt;br /&gt;
01273 673 311&lt;br /&gt;
Tue 11 BRISTOL BIERKELLER&lt;br /&gt;
0117 926 8514&lt;br /&gt;
Wed 12 LONDON SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE&lt;br /&gt;
0844 477 2000&lt;br /&gt;
Fri 14 NORWICH WATERFRONT SOLD OUT&lt;br /&gt;
01603 508 050&lt;br /&gt;
Sat 15 LEEDS COCKPIT&lt;br /&gt;
0113 245 5570&lt;br /&gt;
Sun 16 MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2&lt;br /&gt;
0161 832 1111&lt;br /&gt;
Tue 18 LIVERPOOL ACADEMY 2&lt;br /&gt;
0844 477 2000&lt;br /&gt;
Wed 19 BIRMINGHAM BARFLY&lt;br /&gt;
0844 847 2424&lt;br /&gt;
Thu 20 NOTTINGHAM RESCUE ROOMS&lt;br /&gt;
0871 3100 000&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;24hr C/C Hotline 0871 2200 260 / buy online &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gigsandtours.com&quot;&gt;www.gigsandtours.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
All shows 14+ except Bristol which is 16+&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Taio For Mobos</title>
<description>Taio has revealed he&amp;rsquo;ll be a guest performer at this year&amp;rsquo;s MOBO awards which are set to take place in Wembley Arena on Oct 15. In the company of the likes of Estelle and John Legend Taio will be teaming up with the Sugababes for a special one off performance which is set to be one of the show&amp;rsquo;s highlights. Meanwhile don&amp;rsquo;t forget Taio is nominated in the best male category at the MOBOS click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobo.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;if you feel like voting and giving him his props.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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