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234341178-Suurlemoen
234341178-Suurlemoen
Notes
• When Tiaan and Zane arrives at Mr Marx’s class after shool, the school band is setting up
for their practise session
• MM talks to the band about postmodernism and uses the Mozart statuette as an
example of this
• Frik calls out that Tiaan and Zane is in a band
• Mr Marx takes out information sheets about the competition, Rumoer, and asks if they
would be interested in entering
• Zane and Tiaan have been friends since grade 3
• Liezl makes her first appearance in this chapter
• Tiaan describes her as “sweerlik die mooiste meisie in graad tien” - He later adds that
she is also the smartest girl in the class
• Tiaan and Zane have been playing music together for more than a year
• They only play once a week in the garage and have never performed in front of other people
• nieThey haven’t decided on a band name yet
Chapter 4: Play
• Zane tells Mr Marx that they need a drummer and a singer to start a band
• After Mr Marx makes the suggestion, Zane decides to hold auditions on Thursday
afternoon after school
Chapter 5: Selfportret / Self portrait
Chapter 8: Auditions
• Nirvana
• Upon Liezl’s request, Tiaan and Zane play something
• Frik van Tonder wants to be the first to audition - as a joke
• The auditions don’t go well until Liezl comes to sing
• Sibongile does a drum audition which also goes well
• Liezl says that she can’t be in the band because she doesn’t have the time
• Bongi makes the suggestion that they meet at Milky Lane the next day to discuss
• the band
• Zane declares that he is in love with Liezl
• Tiaan tells the other members of Suurlemoen! that their neighbour’s poodles had a
nervous breakdown from their music
• Suurlemoen! is forbidden from practising in Tiaan’s garage again
• Zane asked Liezl out but she said she had to practise for the music exam
• Tiaan tries to write a song
Chapter 16: Klankdig / Sound proof
• While SL cleans the class, they discover a box with records and an old record
player.
• They get theplayer to work and sing along to golden oldies
• Mr Van Schalkwyk is the principal
• Tiaan has a nightmare that he’s advertised himself in the Classifieds as Sixteen,
Desperate and in need of true love
• Zane comes to visit Tiaan with the news that Mr Marx was in a famous band called
Chrome Bunny
• They released a record with two songs:
• Queen Shirley
• Breakfast at the Blue Moon
• In this chapter, the relationship between Liezl and Tiaan progresses further when they
spend time alone for the first time.
• Tiaan visits Liezl at her house so they can work on ideas for a song
• They talk about his love for photography
• They talk about the garden gnome. It was there when Liezl’s parents bought the house
and Liezl
• fought with her mom to keep it, because it was there before them
Chapter 26: Girls Only
• Liezl wants to visit Tiaan to work on a poster to advertise their first performance.
• She and Zane shows up
• In this scene, Liezl visits Tiaan voluntarily, even though she has time alone with Zane.
This shows that there is progression in her and Tiaan’s relationship and conflict becomes
possible.
• Liezl has the idea to take a picture of a lemon and change it so that it looks like it’s
plugged into the wall
• Tiaan uses Photoshop to do this.
• They phone Bongi to come join them
• SL almost got into trouble for putting up posters without permission, but Mr Marx said
that he had given permission
• Mr Marx suggests that they record themselves
Psycho Bob and Willem announce during first break that they have a
surprise
Frik comes to speak to the members of SL to hear if they know what the surprise is
Psycho Bob and Willem announce during second break that they received a demo tape
of the bands song and they play the song on air.
Zane had forgotten to lock the practise room
Frik had stolen their tape
Tiaan tells Zane that someone hummed their song in the toilet
Their song is voted number one on Psycho Bob and Willem’s top three
The kids in their school voted for them
Tiaan is battling with his maths homework and tries to spell Liezl and the other members
of SL’s names on his calculator
This shows progression as he comes closer to realising his true feelings for Liezl.
Tiaan tells her about the t-shirts that he wants to make
He invites her to come over and she agrees
There are only three days left until their first performance and they still have to choose
songs to play
Both Liezl and Zane ignore Tiaan
Bongi suggests that they cancel their rehearsal
Tiaan makes a list of reasons why he could/couldn’t be in love with Liezl
This situation shows further progression of his feelings for Liezl.
The conflict between Zane and Tiaan worsens when Zane makes a sarcastic comment
about a song.
Tiaan is in a dilemma - he thinks that he has lost both Liezl and Zane’s friendship
Bongi phones Tiaan to say that Liezl has quit the band.
She is allowed to, as their trial month is over
They can’t perform on Monday
The electric cable of their poster has been metaphorically plugged out
Chapter 39: Bands wat hulle alie gesien het omdat hulle gefight het / Bands that broke up
because of a fight
Tiaan makes a list of the bands that split because they fought.
Tiaan gets out of class a few minutes before break and locks himself in the toilet
He forces entry into the media centre where Psycho Bob and Willem broadcast from
He asks Psycho Bob and Willem to help him
Chapter 42: Gyselaarsdrama / Hostage drama
Tiaan hold them hostage until the other members of Suurlemoen agree to perform that
night.
They have to put their answers in the voting slot
Psycho Bob and Willem will miss their maths test but they don’t care because they hadn’t
studied
The principal reprimands Tiaan
Mr Marx talks to Tiaan
Mr Marx hadconvinced the principal to not punish him if he came out immediately
He gives Tiaan letters from the other members of SL saying they will play
Psycho Bob and Willem are MC’s at the drama club’s performance
SL performs and it goes well
• In this chapter, the conflict between Zane and Tiaan is halted when
Zane forgives Tiaan.
• He had written two new rules in their Guide to Girls that shows that
he’d forgiven Tiaan
• Tiaan is relieved and feels like a weight has been lifted off his shoulders
• Tiaan describes his feelings and what he sees in the crowd (TV camera and a fan wearing
their Suurlemoen shirt)
• They start on a false note
• One of Tiaan’s guitar strings break in the middle of his guitar solo