Ghost Rockers

- Season 1

(2014)

*At the fist day of the new school year, artistically gifted kids are heading to Antwerp's DAM, principal Rocco Mertens's academy (special high-school) for theatre, music and dance. Newbies include kind, cocky, clueless would be-director Alexander de Coninck, whose clumsy kindergarten memories scare off senior dance star Lauren, and college (academic high school)-deserted guitarist Jonas van Loo, who takes pity on shy klutz Jimmy O'Hara having accidentally met on the bus. Rocco's gloomy presentation of staff, almost ignoring new academic chief teacher Pieter Verlinden...

On the first school day at DAM, students are assigned to practice groups focused at three 'evaluation moments', but even the initial skills demonstrations rarely go as well as dance king Brandon, who switched to the music course to become a fully qualified pop star. Jonas has no guitar or repertoire, yet despite his klutzy Old MacDonald performance the teacher promises top help him with late enrollment, but he lacks papers and still pretends to be in college to his mother. Deputy principal Isabella secretly recognizes him as son of a father she knew well and talks ...

Jonas must still do a belated audition, hoping the self-playing guitar will save his skin, so he has to sneak into school after hours with Jimmy to get it out, while impersonating at home his father to 'transfer' from college behind his mother's back. Police brings by Mila, a convicted wayward brat whom Rocco isn't amused to be deputy Isabella's latest protegee, but the ballet-trained dance class is intrigued by her hip-hop street talent.

Even cocky Brandon is surprised -Jimmy terrified- when the director announces the Autumn exams are to be preceded by in-school individual act performances, to be directed by Alex, who may then do so for the exams too. Nevertheless, the friends who witnessed the instruments from the basement magically improving their musical abilities are drawn there again, willing or not. Meanwhile Jonas hides his transfer to art academy from his family by changing in the locker-room.

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Alex is busy preparing the autumn pre-exam performance he may direct. The acts are far from ready. Jonas and the girls drag Jimmy back to the instruments, which still enhance their talent inexplicably. They find a clue to their provenance, leading to the late builder's former shop. It's now run by an inhospitable man, but they resolve to return at night.

Alex imposes black and withe costumes for the autumn pre-exam performance he may direct. Jonas, Jimmy and the girls discover a picture of the maker the instruments. A teacher recognizes him and the band he was in, which played the very songs they so magically can play on those mysterious instruments. Jonas's mother finds a clue in his laundry about his secret switch from high school to arts academy.

Alex isn't impressing the principal as the pre-exam perfoamnces show's director, unlike cheater Brandon's bling show and Jonas's guitar song, a ghostly inspiration. Jonas convinces his mother he only forged her signature to hide a bad physics grade. That evening, the gang attempts holding a sceance in the basement.

Alex is solely blamed by the principal fort the power-cut, resulting from Brandon's last-minute demands for his flashy performance, and is denied directing the autumn exams. Jonas's gang meanwhile holds a séance in the basement, but the spirits aren't responsive. Finally they conclude the only clues are the titles of songs offered to them, which seem to combine to 'help us'. Sneeking out of the dark basement due to the power-cut, they are nearly caught by the principal.

Alex is fired as exams director by the principal, who assign the repeat-student to Jonas's gang. They must dump their new partner before they can sneak into the basement again to hold another séance to ask the spirits what they must help with. Brian is humbled as the teacher finds his performance lacking in substance and cites Jonas as an example.

Having dodged Alex, Jonas's gang is locked in by the principal, and tells their parents thy're holding sleepovers. They hold another basement 'séance' yam session, in which the spirits inspire a song about graffiti. The clue seems the bizarre phrase about a high angel, which Jonas believes to find in the attic.

Alex is mildly disappointed not to have been invited by Jonas's gang for the alleged basement repetition when they are found locked-in after the weekend. The principal ad his deputy are furious at their disrespectful vandalism-akin pigging out and duly impose lots of cleaning chores. Brandon enjoys using sexy postures in dance class to flirt with haughtily hostile, klutzy newbie Mila, which renders Jonas discretely and Brandon's girlfriend madly jealous.

Alex sweetly covers for Jonas's gang and semi-accidentally discovers their basement séance, threatens to expose them if not informed and is eager to join. Brandon easily gets back on kissing terms with girlfriend by assuring his dance lass flirt with Mila was meaningless, while she tells the gang he's just a good mentor. While the others are stuck in class, Jonas takes Mila searching for graffiti that fit the lyrics, as the ones on the playground don't, but they run into a tough skaters street bunch.

Alex eagerly helps Jonas's gang work out what the graffiti clue in the song text means. Jonas and Mila get help from the street skaters gang who explain 'angel' is a term for a late graffiti artist, 'moonlight' relates. Brandon juggles flirting with Mila, who keeps hesitating between appreciating his dance class help and Jonas's jealousy, and his girl Laurel, whom Alex hints might get jealous before Brandon intimidates him. The gang now even ditches classes to keep investigating the clue.

The 'angel' graffiti tags suggests that the ghosts' band 'Freebirds' was murdered. Alex eagerly joins Jonas's gang in the next séance, playing the keyboard, but isn't ghost-inspired to the song which suggests it was sabotage, and they died in a plain crash. Brandon and Mila must prepare for a famous choreographer's visit, and he's early.

The gang is shocked but eager to investigate the apparent sabotage by which the ghosts' band 'Freebirds' was murdered, but they have more pressing matters. Alex covers again for absences from class while Jonas still hasn't intercepted principal Rocco's letter to his parents, and his mother voice-mailed she's picking him up after class in the academic school he never enrolled in. Brandon and his girls prepare for famous choreographer Toby Jones's visit, and Mila didn't sleep all night.

Brandon saves Mila's neck by turning her hopelessly failing solo performance into a brilliant duo, risking lover Lauren's wrath, but she's still picked for for famous choreographer Toby Jones's next modern production. Still ingrate Mial wines about the absence of Jonas, who has to rush off to the other school to prevent his mother finding out about his transfer. Jimmy overhears director Rooco is determined to inform their parents by letter the next day about the "vandals'" locked-in night.

Brandon celebrated having saved Mila's neck by accepting to have drinks and prancing in a public fountain together, until he steals a kiss. Toby Jones picks him to dance with Lauren in his next production, but she's jealous and he refrains from touching her with the explicitly required passion, then confesses the 'meaningless' kiss. Jonas and Jimy were too late to prevent principal Rooco sending letters to the gang's parents, but Alex saved their necks, despite being kept out of everything and demands as sole reward to be fully included. His keyboard now is activated ...

Brandon barely dares touch jealous Lauren, who pushes him away, during practice for Tony's video. The gang finds the new song does after all contain clues to statues in the park, leading to a lovers' couple, but they're chased off by park staff, so they agree to return after class. Mila is called to the vice principal's office, where police waits.

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