Day One’s main stage crowd (Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP with permission to CHS)

Unlike in 2013, producers could not claim Day One of Capitol Hill Block Party 2014 sold out. No matter. The weather was perfect, the beats, funky, the crowd (even with the knuckleheads drawn to drinking in large groups of people) awesome and full of Pacific Northwest characters.

CHBP 2014 Open Threads: Day One / Day Two

(Image: Rayna Stackhouse for CHS)

(Image: Rayna Stackhouse for CHS)

Excellent pants, Kim (Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP with permission to CHS)

Childbirth (Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP)

(Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP)

(Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP)

(Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP)

(Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP)

Man or Astro-Man? (Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP)

A$AP Rocky meets CHBP (Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP with permission to CHS)

Holy Child autograph session (Image: Jim Bennett/CHBP with permission to CHS)

Saturday at Block Party won’t sell out either. The rhythm of the festival schedule remains the same with Day Two’s slate full of deeper cut acts and smaller fan bases. Dance funk by way of Montreal from Chromeo sets the tone but the day is more about the local PNW acts that dominate the stages. More images and notes from Day One and Day Two, below. Let us know what you found at CHBP 2014. We’ll update here and there through the day so help keep us posted.

• Hot: The National Weather Service says Seattle is on pace for one of its hottest Julys ever. Saturday will help. Highs are expected to sniff 80 F.
• Broadway/Union hit and run: A woman struck by a hit and run driver at Broadway and Union Friday night around 6:20 PM was taken to the hospital with minor injuries as CHBP Day One got underway. That’s better than initial reports of more serious injuries. No word yet on whether SPD tracked down the driver who fled the scene.
• Kids: The Block Party is all-ages. We’re not your mother but we’d recommend a daytime experience for wee-er ones unless you want to answer a lot of pretty good questions. It’s a lot of fun for aspiring young music snobs. Make sure to bring ear protection. And, yeah, anybody bigger than a baby will need a ticket.
• Entrepreneurs: CHS saw something new on the edges of the festival not witnessed in past years. Or maybe we just missed it in past years: beer vendors. To the young men slinging beer cans around Block Party’s edges, we hope you’re charging a healthy premium. Meanwhile, the scalpers, as usual, were struggling to move their goods.
• The future: Seeing the new Vera Stage set-up on 11th Ave between two construction projects underway and another planned to eventually loom above it, CHS can’t help but wonder how the festival organizers will work with hundreds of residents set to eventually move in. At least Chophouse Row will be mostly commercial and office space. No worries, though. KING 5 reports some Capitol Hill neighbors welcome a ‘noisy’ Block Party weekend.
• Bikeway: While we’re being debbie downers, always interesting to see how the city’s new infrastructure, um, meshes with Block Party.
• Schedule: Funk from Canada? Lo-fi pop punk from Portland? Tacoma rock? This is your day.