Musikfest is one of the biggest attractions to northeast Pennsylvania of the year. It brings in a few million every year and ignites the Lehigh Valley into a beer drinking, weird food eating, concert going sweat fest every August. The idea of Musikfest is great, i love it, i really do, but i feel like they are fucking up big time.

Pro’s:

• The different areas (platz’s) The different themes you can visit while at Musikfest are awesome, its quite neat. Each Platz has it’s own vibe and ora to it, it’s like every 5 minutes you walk that you enter into another realm of some sort.
• The food… everywhere you go there is something new to try. Food you would have never even thought existed. I’m not going to list these, go find out for yourself.
• The free bands. Honestly, i would rather visit Musikfest to see the free bands than pay a pretty penny to see these dogshit headliners they have had the past few years.
• The beer mugs…. you need to get one every year, only because you probably lose it every year, 10 minutes before you leave to visit Musikfest for the first time of the year, you realize you lost your mug…again.
• The Silent Disco. It’s actually pretty sweet.
• Hotel Bethlehem….. because it’s air conditioned.

Con’s:

• Parking. The parking is a nightmare around Musikfest every year. You usually end up parking about a 15 minute walk away from Musikfest. Unless you have a friend that lives close (im lucky to have one) and has somewhere for you to park at their house, if you don’t have that you are fucked. By the time you actually get there, you are usually drenched in sweat. That’s only the beginning…
• R.I.P Soco Slushies. The only rewarding thing about Musikfest to me, was after this horrible walk to get to Musikfest from my car, Soco slushies were there waiting for me. A nice refreshing adult beverage that usually gave you a brainfreeze in the first 3 seconds, but non the less a great frozen drink that gave you actually a decent buzz to make you forget that you are sweating your nuts off. But no, they got rid of those. No idea why, when i turned 21 in 2011, i would park my ass in front of that Soco slushie stand and slamed these down like they were going out of style, apparently they were.
• Stroller’s after Dark. This really grinds my gears, ill tell ya what. There is no reason to have your child that cannot walk yet at Musikfest after dark. There is no reason to do that. You clog up the goddamn walking lanes trying to maneuver your shitty kid that shouldn’t be there after dark around a bunch of drunk idiots paying 8 dollars for a beer trying to hear some shitty cover songs from some shitty cover band that can’t write their own music and just play the top 100 hits. Take your kid home before he gets trampled on by some dude who paid way to much money for the keg of light beer he guzzled down that fat neck of his. Take your kid during the day, nighttime is a no-no. Sorry.
• People that walk while staring at their phone. I want to absolutely blow a fuse while walking behind these fucking people. The area you are walking in is congested enough, i don’t need you walking at the pace of a goddamn turtle because you are texting on your shitty iphone5. Oh, and then you get pissed when i pull a power move and try to pass you.. get off your phone you goddamn millennial. Get bent.
• The Headline Concerts. I am sorry, people may hate me for this. The headline acts the last few years have been absolutely horrendous. Can we get a band/artist that is actually relevant in todays age? Is that a hard thing to do when you draw millions of people a year? It’s pathetic. Here’s a list of dud’s from this year, let me remind you that no show sold out this year. Yikes! I was going to do an all-time list, but this years lineup is enough to prove my point.

1- 2018- Styx and Joan Jett

• 1st off, i’m not a fan of either but i don’t mind them. But, honestly, who is going to pay top dollar to see people who are in their 70’s trying to recreate their golden era, not this guy. Maybe 25 years ago this would have been a good concert, probably not for a 2018 Musikfest headliner…sorry but its true. Rating: 2.6 

2- 2018- Daughtry 

• This dude was relevant in 2006 when he was a finalist in American Idol, 2006!!!!!! He had a top album the next year just because of American Idol, what has he done since….. nothing. Musikfest, its 2018, stop living in the past paying for these cheap has-bens and get someone who is actually going to draw a crowd and not just getting people receiving free tickets from their company they work at because they have heard of Daughtry from American Idol 400 years ago.  Rating: 3.1 

3- 2018- Kesha

• Wow, what a get for Musikfest. Kesha, the bad bitch from back in the day. The one who woke up in the morning feeling like P.Diddy and then brushed her teeth with a bottle of jack. Yeah, i remember that from 2009 for sure. She hasn’t been relevant since then. She released an album this year that has not preformed very well on the charts….shocking, hate to see that, you really hate to see that. Rating: 4.5 

4- 2018- Jason Mraz

• My god, this lineup would have been equivalent to woodstock if this was 2009. Jason Mraz is that typical douchbag in the stupid fedora. I have not really listened to his music at all but as a name who is famous, he is C- list at best at this point.  Rating: 3.9 

 

 

• I feel like Musikfest just gets the dud’s from 10 years ago to come here and do a headline show at a big music festival. It’s really pathetic if you think about it. Not 1 show sold out this year, ASTOUNDING! How about next year @musikfest you get people that actually move the needle and maybe you would sell out your “headline” acts. Don’t even get me started with the Grouplove show that only sold about 50% of tickets. Yikes. Also, big shoutout to MUSIKFEST for creating a pit area at the headline shows. I broke 3 ribs at the Avenged Sevenfold show a few years ago because a mosh pit started behind me that i was unaware of, and was thrown 4 seats to my left, spilled 3 Soco slushies and broke 3 ribs. Ill tell you what, it really took a genius to create a pit area that exists is almost every venue in the USA, and you know, for rock/metal shows, i’m sure everyone wanted to sit down in their seat the whole time and just enjoy the musicianship for these artists……..

 

 

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