Suurlemoen! Notes
Opsomming van Hoofstukke in Suurlemoen! Chapter 1: Mozart met Lipstick
• Ms Pienaar asks Tiaan and Zane to deliver a letter to Mr Marx • Mr Marx is not there so Tiaan puts the letter on his desk
• Meanwhile, Zane “decorates” the statue of Mozart with the lipstick that he picked up before school
• MM catches Zane messing with the statuette but is not upsethe asks them to meet him in his class after school
• Lipstick that Zane found = Revlon Passion Fruit • Mr Marx is a music teacher
• Mr Marx and Ms Pienaar apparently kissed one night at a school dance • when they were supposed to supervise
• Mr Marx bought the Mozart statuette in Austria and it was expensive • Mozart is originally from Austria
Chapter 2: Orkesoefening / Band practise
• 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
Chapter 3: Pause. Rewind.
• 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
• Tiaan tries to take pictures of himself with his camera
• He says that he needs something to amuse himself with, as he’s not leaving the house due to the embarassing incident at the band practice
• Zane is excited because Liezl smiled at him)
• Tiaan thinks that she was laughing at him rather than smiling
Chapter 6: Kennisgewings / Notices
• Zane makes posters to advertise the auditions
Chapter 7: Zane se verdiende loon / Zane gets what he deserves • No one shows up for the auditions
• Zane and Tiaan goes to the school-band practice and convinces Mr Marx to have them hold the auditions there amongst the school-band members
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 Chapter 9: Casanova op sy knieë / Casanova on his knees
• 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
Chapter 10: Die Gids / The Guide
• Tiaan tells the reader of his and Zane’s guide to girls
• They’ve been recording everything they’ve learnt about girls since grade 8 • The guide originated when Zane had his heart broken
• Tiaan thinks that Zane is eager to start a band because he believes girls like guys in rock bands
Chapter 11: Wat’s in ‘n naam? / What’s in a name?
• They decide to give the band a chance for a month to see if it • works or not
• Bongi reads a saying on her sugar packet (make lemonade), which leads to the idea for the name of the band.
• Zane suggests that they practise in Tiaan’s garage
• They need to write the group’s name and a short biography of each member on the application form for the competition (called Rumoer)
• Tiaan uses lemon slices in the band’s pictures
Chapter 12: Suur...! / Sour
• Biographies on the members of Suurlemoen!
Chapter 13: Lawaai (Noise)
• They are officially entered into the Rumoer competition
• They need to write and perform three original Afrikaans songs at the competition
• Zane offers to walk Liezl home because he wants to ask her to a movie
Chapter 14: Song
• Tiaan writes his ideas on Post-it sticky notes
Chapter 15: Senuweebrakke /Nervous dogs
• 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
• Central High School, SL’s school, has a radiostation that’s manned by • Psycho Bob and Willem.)
• Bongi arranges the open classroom next to Mr Marx’s class as practice space • They have to paint and clean the class before they can use it
Chapter 17: Operasie Orkeskamer (Operation Orchestra Room)
• 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
Chapter 18: Mal (Crazy)
• Liezl still hasn’t agreed to go out with Zane
• Tiaan says that he should be himself. Zane writes this advice in their Guide to Girls Chapter 19: Lemonade
• Bongi brings lemonade and sandwiches to their first practise session. • Tiaan has an idea for a song about lemons and lemonade.
• The words “my heart is a lemon” is written on one of his Post-its and the band becomes excited about this
• Liezl smiles and Tiaan says he feels “weird, but in a nice way”.
• This shows that he is busy falling for her, even though he doesn’t necessarily realise it. • Zane asks for advice from Tiaan about Liezl
Chapter 20: Maak Lemonade (Make Lemonade)
Read through the lyrics of Suurlemoen’s first song thoroughly. Word clarifications:
Suurlemoendag - Lemon day Niksdoendag - Doing nothing day Siek & sat - sick and tired
Gehang aan my tak - hanging around Klop - to beat (like a heart)
Suurlemoentee - Lemon-flavoured tea Vreemde - strange
Uiteindelik - finally Giggelende - giggling
Goudgeel - intensive form of yellow Uitgelate - elated/uninhibited Somerson - summer sun
Soetsuur - sweet and sour
Chapter 21: Just before our hero becomes a zombie... • Tiaan is depressed and doesn’t know why
• He doesn’t think that it has anything to do with Zane and Liezl’s movie date the following day
• He thinks he might be going crazy
• Tiaan’s feelings for Liezl are becoming stronger, although he still doesn’t want to realise that there are feelings.
Chapter 22: Snuffelgids (Classifieds)
• Tiaan has a nightmare that he’s advertised himself in the Classifieds as Sixteen, Desperate and in need of true love
Chapter 23: Chrome Bunny
• 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 Chapter 24: Fast Forward
• Tiaan refers to a book that he read about how to begin a band.
• The first chapter’s title: Beware: Being in a rock band can be dead boring.
• Tiaan did not read further than this chapter because he decided the authors did not know what they were talking about.
• After the first week of Suurlemoen’s existence, Tiaan realises these words are true.
Chapter 25: The language of garden gnomes
• 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
Chapter 26: Girls Only
• The band has been together for three weeks.
• After practise Liezl doesn’t walk home with Zane because she’s going to drink coffee with
• Bongi – alone.
Chapter 27: First gig
• In this chapter, the conflict with Frik van Tonder continues. • Frik mocks the band at break
• Frik plays the cello
• Mr Marx calls them in after school. The school received confirmation of their entry into • the Rumoer competition. The first round will be held on 4 September at Dr Viljoen High
School’s hall
• Mr Marx suggests they perform at the drama club’s performance of Romeo & Juliet to get a bit of exposure before the competition.
Chapter 28: Electricity
• 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
Chapter 29: Plugged in
• 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 Chapter 30: On tape
• They listen to the recording and each member reacts differently • Zane takes his guitar home to practise
• Tiaan gives him the practise room’s key so he can put his guitar back the next day before school
• Bongi spoke to Magdel Meyer, the drama club’s chairperson, who said that not a lot of school kids come to their shows
Chapter 31: Psycho Bob en Willem
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
Chapter 32: Damage control
• Bongi suggests that they get Frik back at a later stage • Bongi is relieved that he left their instruments alone
• Bongi decides to keep the keys because she doesn’t trust Tiaan or Zane
Chapter 33: Toilet hit
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
Chapter 34: Maths and a jackpot question
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 Chapter 35: Great
In this chapter, Tiaan’s feelings for Liezl develops. Liezl and Tiaan works on their t-shirt
Zane finds them huddling over the computer and storms off Zane is jealous and made his own assumptions
Liezl says that it’s all her fault and also storms off
She was supposed to go out with Zane but chose to go to Tiaan instead
The T-shirt shows a picture of a heart, made up of two lemons, with a bent straw in one At the top - My hart is ‘n suurlemoen / my heart is a lemon
Chapter 36: Stilstuipe / The silent treatment
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.
Chapter 37: Vuishou /Sucker punch
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 Chapter 38: Uitgeplug /Plugged out
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.
Chapter 40: Mr Marx
Mr Marx says that it’s okay that they broke up SL is surprised because they expected a lecture
Mr Marx says they have to notify the organisers of Rumoer and give back the practise room key
Chapter 41: Psycho
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
Chapter 43: Suurlemoen! en Shakespeare
Psycho Bob and Willem are MC’s at the drama club’s performance SL performs and it goes well
Chapter 44: Romeo and Juliet
Bongi tells Tiaan that Liezl likes him
Liezl didn’t want to come between him and Zane Tiaan decides to go buy paint
Chapter 45: Verf /Paint
Tiaan arrives at Liezl’s house with paint, brushes and a flashlight He was there to paint the garden gnome
Tiaan sands down the gnome and begins to paint Liezl apologises about the whole thing with Zane Tiaan admits that he’s crazy about Liezl
This part shows that he has finally accepted his feelings. The unraveling of the conflict/plot starts
here.
Liezl kisses Tiaan Chapter 46: Zane
Tiaan goes to Zane’s house to apologise
He apologises for the way everything happened with Liezl and that Zane got hurt • Flenters = Zane’s dog
Chapter 47: #241
• 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
Chapter 48: Frik
• Zane meets Tiaan before school
• Bongi tells the radio station that Frik is their biggest fan - he isn’t
• He is given the first Suurlemoen t-shirt to thank him for all his loyal “support”.
Chapter 49: Koerantknipsel (Newspaper article)
• Suurlemoen makes it through to the Rumoer final • It is advertised in the school newspaper
• Mr Van Schalkwyk says that he’s proud of SL, even though they caused a lot of drama.
• The final will be held in Johannesburg
Chapter 50: Rumoer
• The Rumoer competition
• Mr Marx comes to wish them good luck
• Psycho Bob and Willem set up a petition to get the school to drive SL’s supporters down to JHB with the school bus
• Five bands are in the final
• The group from the Cape is strong competition - They’ve been together for two years
• Mr Marx invites Suurlemoen to Chrome Bunny’s show in a pub in Kirsten street – the band reunited.
Chapter 51: Magic
• 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 Chapter 52: Suurlemoen!
• Suurlemoen wins the competition • Prizes:
o R20 000 for their school