THE sound of live music has been filling York over the weekend as part of the Live Music weekend at indoor and outdoor venues across the city.

But some listeners to Radio York were bemused when a live broadcast of indie and rock music bands from the Museum Gardens was interrupted.

The sound of the music was broken by a shout from a member of the public, whose ripe language was suddenly cut off.

The broadcast was then curtailed and the programme continued from the studio.

The station's weekend editor, Alan Greveson, explained that the two incidents were unconnected.

He said: "A member of the public was overheard by a live microphone. Around six words were heard and one or two rude words may have been heard on the radio.

"We apologise if they were heard, but we quickly managed to close the offending microphone."

He said that shortly afterwards the broadcast was halted for half an hour because of yesterday's afternoon thunderstorm, to protect the electrical equipment being used.

The show switched back to the studio so CDs could be played until the weather cleared up.

During the weekend, Shed Seven's lead singer Rick Witter donated an acoustic guitar to the BBC's "music amnesty" for the BBC Music Live weekend.

The guitar, along with instruments donated by many other musical stars, will be kept by the BBC and distributed across the country to local music services.

Today there were more live music events going on in York, including experimental music and dance music in the Museum Gardens and rock music in Parliament Street, with performances by Chris Helme at the Theatre Royal this evening and by Lloyd Cole and Cousteau at Fibbers.