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UPDATED JULY 26th
Well izzy is back at home in Australia, ready to tell a tale or many tales about his adventurs so far. Here you will read and see exclusive photos only at Madonnasworld.com on Izzy's adventures following the Queen of the Dancefloor Around the world. First stop; NYC!!

Theres izzy in Manhattan posing with a hot billboard in NYC to advertise Madonnas latest release , 'I"M GOING TO TELL YOU A SECRET". .. out now, so go get it!

INSIDE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

Madonna is set to take the stage but before hand, madonnaFANATICS jeannie sum and izzy, pose for the camera! (taken on July 2nd, 2006)

Another star sighting, Izzy meets madonnas wardrobe man #1

coming soon, more juicy gossip, and was it really true that izzy broke his rib at a Madonna concert??

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Hello BOYS and GIRLS

As you all know I am about to go on an amazing journey. Through It all I will endeavor to keep all your guys posted with everything that is going on, country by country, city by city, show by show :-) 7 cities, 5 countries, It should be fun :-P

PART 1 - NEW YORK CITY / BOSTON, 5 shows
PART 2 - HORSENS / PARIS / AMSTERDAM, 7 shows
PART 3 - OSAKA / TOKYO, 2 shows

One of my main goals is to meet as many iconers as possible, get photos with them and of course PARTY till the cows come home :-P

Naturally, I will have my Australian flag with me in order for everyone to recognise me, especially MADONNA :-P

I have compiled my travel plans in order for everyone to keep track of my where abouts. Also, should any of you guys want to party, please feel free to contact me.

My email address during the tour will be: astrokidsydney@astroboymail.com
My cell phone number during the tour will be: 61 403304469
Feel free to email me or sms me should you want to meet up and party :-)

Also, I am sharing some of the hotels with some Iconers, If anyone needs a place to stay at any particular city, I do not mind sharing, so just let me know :-)

from Sydney (SYD) on Wed 28 Jun 06 - 07:55
to Los Angeles (LAX) on Wed 28 Jun 06 - 07:00

from Los Angeles (LAX) on Wed 28 Jun 06 - 09:05
to New York (NYC) on Wed 28 Jun 06 - 17:20

TRAIN TO BOSTON - 05 June 2006, Details to come
TRAIN TO NEW YORK CITY - 08 June 2006, Details to come

from New York (NYC) on Sun 9 Jul 06 - 19:20
to Sydney (SYD) on Tue 11 Jul 06 - 07:25

HOTEL in Boston:
Staying at my friend Martin's house :-) Thank you so much Martin !

NEW YORK CITY NY - USA 28 JUNE 2006, POD A ROW 2 SEAT 8
NEW YORK CITY NY - USA 29 JUNE 2006, POD A ROW 2 SEAT 14
NEW YORK CITY NY - USA 02 JULY 2006, SEC 12 ROW D SEAT 7
NEW YORK CITY NY - USA 03 JULY 2006, SEC 12 ROW L SEAT 4
BOSTON MA - USA 06 JULY 2006, SEC A ROW 25 SEAT 6

from Sydney (SYD) on Mon 21 Aug 06 - 14:25
to Hong Kong (HKG) on Mon 21 Aug 06 - 21:55

Flight BA 032
from Hong Kong (HKG) on Mon 21 Aug 06 - 23:40
to London (LON) on Tue 22 Aug 06 - 05:35

Flight QF 3439
from London (LON) on Tue 22 Aug 06 - 09:55
to Copenhagen (CPH) on Tue 22 Aug 06 - 12:45

TRAIN TO HORSENS - 22 August 2006, Details to come
TRAIN TO COPENHAGEN - 25 August 2006, Details to come

from Copenhagen (CPH) on Fri 25 Aug 06 - 15:20
to Paris (PAR) on Fri 25 Aug 06 - 17:15

from Amsterdam (AMS) on Tue 5 Sep 06 - 09:50
to London (LON) on Tue 5 Sep 06 - 10:10

from London (LON) on Tue 5 Sep 06 - 12:15
to Sydney (SYD) on Wed 6 Sep 06 - 18:50

Best Western Hotel Danica - Horsens, Denmark
Ove Jensens Alle 28, Horsens, DK-8700, DK
Phone: (45) 75 61 60 22 Fax: (45) 75 61 66 63
Website:Best Western Hotel Danica - Horsens

I had to book 2 hotels as I could not get 1 night at the Mercure as It was fully booked, how annoying!However, they are right next to each other.With both Hotels, I requested rooms overlooking the Bercy Stadium, Cool huh? :-)

Mercure Paris Bercy
77 rue de Bercy, 75012 PARIS, FRANCE
Tel : (+33) 1 53465050 Fax : (+33) 1 53465099
Website:Mercure Paris Bercy

Novotel Paris Bercy
85 rue de Bercy, 75012 PARIS, FRANCE
Tel : (+33) 1 43423000 Fax : (+33) 1 43453060
Website: Novotel Paris Bercy

HORSENS - DENMARK 24 August 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION
PARIS - FRANCE 27 August 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION
PARIS - FRANCE 28 August 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION
PARIS - FRANCE 30 August 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION
PARIS - FRANCE 31 August 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION
AMSTERDAM - HOLLAND 03 September 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION
AMSTERDAM - HOLLAND 04 September 2006, GENERAL ADMISSION

from Sydney (SYD) on Tue 12 Sep 06 - 08:05
to Cairns (CNS) on Tue 12 Sep 06 - 11:10

from Cairns (CNS) on Tue 12 Sep 06 - 12:45
to Osaka (OSA) on Tue 12 Sep 06 - 19:15

TRAIN TO HIMEJI - Details to come, To visit my friend Cristian :-)
TRAIN TO OSAKA - 16 June 2006, Details to come
TRAIN TO HIMEJI - 18 June 2006, Details to come
TRAIN TO TOKYO - 20 June 2006, Details to come

I hope you guys will have a great time if and when you should meet me, I am a lot of fun :-)

Below is a bigger picture of me in case you don't know what I look like, be sure to say hello :D

From time to time, I still get emails and pm's with people asking where they can read my Coachella write up, and I guess, In all fairness, my Adventure this year did start off with Coachella, SO here It Is again, for the people who may want to read It, or read It again, even :-)

“I'm not gonna waste my time correcting myths and rumors, You believe what you wanna believe”

Thursday 27th April 2006, I leave Australia (on my own account of course, I had heard that ICON sent me there or something along those lines) just after lunch only to find out that I was upgraded to Business Class on my Qantas flight, no complaints there. The onboard entertainment system for passengers had the Confessions album, so that came in handy :-P

I arrive at LAX 3 hours earlier of the same day (haha – you’ve got to love the time differences) franola was there to pick me up. How lucky am I so far! It was a pleasure meeting such a beautiful woman. She dropped me off at my hotel and then she was off to work and I went to meet imayahoo2 for lunch, who I met in 2001 at the official ICON pre party before a Drowned World Tour show at the Staples. Several days later after partying in West Hollywood… franola, wyspenni, martin and myself all took off headed for the Coachella Festival. 2 hours later and we arrived around midnight the night before the day Madonna was to perform. We had to wait for everyone to leave the grounds before we could establish our mark there. When that happened we went to the entrance to line up. We were not allowed to be where the lines started however we were nearby, the security guards kept telling us to leave but we didn’t. Some of the security were very nice and we even shared our donuts with them, I guess the most amusing part of that particular night was when one of the security guards asked me how long it took me to drive from Australia (hehe) She was a sweety though. A few hours later people started to arrive, well 2 anyways… then at about 4.30am, 2 other guys arrived. The majority of people arrived at around 6am. By this time there was about 20 of us. I should also mention that security kept threatening that our cars would be towed away should we not remove it from the parking lot, so we left the car a few miles down the road in front of a little neighborhood. We then caught a taxi back to the entrance. Later, a nice guy offered for us to go collect our car, as he would give us a ride to it. In the end, they weren’t really going to tow the cars, they were just saying that so we would leave…

None of us were too sure which entrance was our entrance as there were two of them… We started the line at the entrance that was closest to the Sahara Tent. As time passed (around 7am) 4 of us (martin, myself and 2 others that I cannot remember their names - sorry) thought we should go check out the 2nd entrance (further away from the Sahara Tent) just in case… This entrance was 4 times as big, so straight away we thought that that was our entrance… as the one we were at was a much smaller one, so it was bound to be some sort of a VIP entrance… To the right of the bigger entrance we saw the gate was open… we all got curious as we approached it we realized that we were entering the festival grounds. There were people everywhere working, we kept on walking thinking that we’d get caught very soon and kicked out (haha) we didn’t though, and we kept walking towards the Sohara tent in order to check it out. Most people were picking up rubbish whilst holding huge giant bags. One of the cleaners yelled out to me, “Are you just going to keep on walking or are your going to start work!!” So I thought… OK, I’ll grab some bags and give it to the other guys. So before we knew it we were amongst the other cleaners picking up rubbish with no sleep at all !! Of course we chose to clean the area surrounding the Sohara tent ;-) We also turned our Madonna shirts inside out so it wasn’t too obvious that we were fans.

This is Martin (right) and I (left) before we turned our Madonna shirts inside out hehe

(IF THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE WITHOUT SLEEP THEN I WILL NEVER FORGET TO NOT SLEEP AGAIN!) haha

Before we knew it, we were inside the tent, We could see the stage it was great to see the stage as they put it together :P Shortly after 2 of the boys left. Martin and I decided to stick around in hope that Madonna would do a sound check :P 2 hours later of cleaning the floors we started to see familiar faces… Stuart Price, Liz Rosenberg, The “Hat”, Jamie King and all the dancers… but no sign of Madonna. About 15 minutes later ! OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!! THE QUEEN ARRIVES ON STAGE !!!!!!!!!! I was so excited, by this time, I was as awake as anything!! (I was so so so tired guys, believe me!)

Here are some pictures that I managed to take from around the corner as I picked up rubbish :-P

They are not the best, but they are cool, She was wearing a black adidas pants and a singlet. She was there for about 20 minutes, looking at the stage telling people what to do and all that jazz. She then left for about an hour and all the dancers went on to rehearse for the show, without madonna…

In the mean time, I went and spoke to Tamara (dancer) she remembered me from RIT, the first thing she said was, “I know you, wow you are everywhere!” haha and she told me how she still had the Koala Bear that I gave her. We chatted and I told her to convince Madonna to go to Australia so that she would have a chance at holding a real Koala bear and not just the one I gave her hehe We chatted and she confirmed that they are going to Japan, unlike certain rumours that are spreading that Japan will be cancelled. Moments later, Jamie King was trying to get my attention from the stage, he wanted to put his plastic cup in the bag that I was collecting the trash with… how funny. Later in the line, I saw Tamara again with Cloud, I tapped him on the shoulder and said “hi”, he looked at me as if he knew me but was unsure… Tamara then said to him, It’s Israel, the Aussie! How cool! He then said. “Oh yeah, I have the Kangaroo that u gave me in my bedroom on my shelf on the wall. Was nice that they kept my presents that I gave them.

1 hour later, Madonna came back onstage with an outfit change (same pants though) red shirt with a black t-shirt on top to do her sound check !!! So theoretically we saw the show twice, Madonna for the sound check and then the actual show. Was so amazing to see Madonna right in front of us without make up, without the glamorous outfits. Just Madonna, a human being just like u and me. It’s an illusion really… But she is still our Queen!! Everyone in the tent was just sitting round watching ! so we did too. Half way through, The “Hat” came up to us and asked us what we were doing, and we replied, picking up rubbish.. And then he said we will have to leave now. So we did and we treasure what we saw. As we left the tent, there were security everywhere and we were worried that we were going to get attacked as we were not supposed to be in there. So instead of heading for the gates, we decided to sit quietly in the portable toilets immediately next to the tent. We locked the doors and sat quietly listening to Madonna’s sound check :P Soon we realized that we could see Madonna through the air vents, so Martin and I did just that and watched the rest of the sound check from the portable toilet (or sauna, as it felt like one - IT WAS SO HOT IN THERE!!!) JUST FOUND OUT THAT they are called Porta Potty's LOL. When the crowd was let into the festival, we left the toilet and went to the line to get our wrist bands. So yes… either way, whether we would have waited in line outside the festival or done what we did, we would have been first regardless. Makes you think what all the fuss is all about doesn’t it?

There was confusion at first, but security was extremely nice and explained to us what the deal was with the situation in regards to being in the very front mosh pit. The deal was, only people with these wrist bands would be granted access to be up front. They would clear out the mosh pit 1 hour prior to Madonna’s show and then only let people in with wrist bands to the mosh pit at the very front. So this was to be done at around 7pm. So throughout the day, we were all there in line, all coming and going for obvious reasons (shade breaks, food, toilets) I didn’t realize there would be a problem with this. I have been to several Madonna General Admission concerts all over the world and no one has a problem with people in line coming and going as they need to. It is actually quite unrealistic for anyone to stand non stop in a line from midday to 8pm at night without leaving the line. But I guess from what I hear If u leave the line then u loose your spot… How petty for anyone to think in such way. Each to their own I guess.

As 4pm ticked over, the security came and said that there were going to open the gates for us and we could stay in there till the concert started. WOW !!! We were all in shock !! Too bad if u were taking a toilet break or getting food !! Even if u had been there since the night before, if u weren’t there at that point in time, people in the line would rush in and you would have lost your spot, I was thankful to be in the line as this happened especially because I came from such a long way, and was the only Australian Madonna Fan amongst the group of people who had been waiting since the night before. (Oh yeah, there was just one Aussie Fan – me, myself and I, I heard there were 2, does anyone know the other one? Could it be that as a matter of fact certain people are so wrong about what they are saying, that they are making it up as they go? I will pray to the gods above that very soon in the near future, they will be become happy people and rid the negativity that they choose to surround themselves in. I wish them all the best.

I had made it, front row centre, smack bang in the middle. I got what I came for. I was delighted and extremely content. Paul Oakenfold was simply brilliant, I danced the entire way through his set :P (No Madonna songs though) When his time was over… It was our turn !! The Queen would grace the stage for us :P Security kept trying to push us back a few feet back, I assumed so that we would not get hit, as they were dismantling the stage and setting up Madonna’s, as time went on, they kept pushing us further and further back. We were all very frustrated and nervous, we didn’t understand why. Soon, all we could see were 7 photographers with huge big cameras that occupied the entire front row. I started to get very agitated and angry, as you do after waiting since the night before in order to be front row centre and watching it being taken away from u in the most unfair of ways. Meanwhile, coming in from the left and right, a huge entourage of people came into the mosh pit. I am talking, Adults, very old Grandparents (one even had a walking stick), little boys and girls, even a kid in a wheelchair !!! My front row centre had become 7th row centre. I was devastated. All the security kept saying was, these people are MADONNA family and friends, which can mean a whole lot of things really, and not necessarily MADONNA’s personal family and friends, but dancers family and friends, stage crew family and friends.. etc… No matter who they were, they all had MADONNA BACKSTAGE PASSES. Never in my life had I felt so betrayed by “Madonna’s camp” How dare they, How could they!!?? even Madonna’s camp, take away my front row, after traveling from Australia specifically just to see Madonna perform! 15 hours in a plane, 2.5 hours drive from Los Angeles, Not sleeping a wink the night before, standing in line allnight and all day, to have my spot taken away from me, just like that. The crowd was furious !! They became aggressive and angry and started pushing through the barrier in order to get through. I did no different, In fact I had no choice, as I was in front of the barrier. I saw people on my sides getting through, I tried the same, and managed to get to the front through a gap. Needless to say, Madonna’s Family and friends were crushed, and they soon left the pit (well most of them anyways) I was front row once again, not in the centre, but front row. A little to the left, It was very rough, the right side of me kept trying to push left so that they could end up more to the centre, but I was determined not to let that happen, I was trying my best to keep the spot I had landed the second time, as my front row centre was now occupied by a photographer. Oh well, that’s life. I sincerely hope that the word on what happened will prevent from another situation of this sort to occur again. You simply cannot take away a front row spot from any Madonna fan after they have earnt them! Not even Madonna’s people, It just isn’t fair.

The show went on, Madonna came onstage, it was wild, amazing and crazy. She was so close !!!!!

I found this pic on the net: at the very front of this pic, you can see my Aussie hat that I was wearing :P

Now I will tell u about my moment that made gave me a permanent smile that will never come off. During Let It Will Be, She was crawling around the floor and got her attention as I kept yelling out “I LOVE YOU MADONNA” plus I was wearing my Aussie hat and waving my Aussie flag of course I was reaching out to her and she grabbed my left index finger with her index finger for about 4 seconds and she sang to me !!!!!!!!! I had tears of joy dripping out of my eyes. She had made my night even more memorable !!! I am In hope that I will see pics of this moment on the net at some point :-) I think some of the Italian fans or even tonybecks may have captured this as they were to the left of the stage... We'll see :-)

The best part was having all the iconers coming up to me all excited coz they saw us holding fingers :P

Earlier she also grabbed Heathers hand (I forget her name on ICON - sorry) She is lovely, I was so happy to meet her !!!!

By the end of it all, I was so exhausted and drenched with my sweat and other peoples sweat !!

We left soon after hanging with tonybecks, gc79 and Heather, they are so lovely!

imayahoo2 (Josh) Thanks for being so beautiful towards me and for letting me hang out with your BF, he is top shelf. I have known you 5 years now and hopefully the next 5 years will be even better :-)

A special thank you to Kara_G for meeting up with me in West Hollywood and I am sorry for getting us into trouble by security for trying to jump on the stage and dance at the Factory Nightclub.

Franola, people like you make my life worth living. You are very special to me, always and forever. (I haven't forgotten my promise which I couldn't keep this time round due to obvious reasons. Hang in there babe, and please be patient)

AND A BIG THANK YOU FOR MY TICKET, FRANOLA BOUGHT ME A TICKET EVERYONE !!!! SHE IS A TRUE WONDER IN THIS WORLD AND INDEED A BEAUTIFUL SOUL, ALWAYS AND FOREVER !!!!!!

And to all my friends who know me through the forum (kelmadfan – my pretend wife) and in person. Thank you for sticking by me and for all your enthusiasm in regards to my Madonna adventures, You guys know who you are. You guys know what I am and what I am not capable of doing. Thanks for all your support. I love you guys.

PS: FOR THE AUSSIES - The sign i made for MADONNA said "AUSTRALIA NEEDS YOU" it took me 3 hours to make during the night and I lost it during the run from the line into the tent, i had it in my pocket :-(

I am so sorry, I didn't get it to her, but at least I shoved my flag in front of her a few times and I told Tamara to have words with Madonna in regards to coming to Australia :-) So hopefully things might happen, you never know right? I tried my best guys.