Jack Oades, currently Tenor Lay Vicar at Exeter Cathedral but has help organist posts at Croydon Minster and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin has been appointed Organist at St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh to succeed Michael Harris. He announced the appointment on his facebook page. 

In Bristol Cathedral the final hymn of the 10am Eucharist on Sunday 22nd September was no. 383 (Jesu, Lover Of My Soul) to Joseph Parry's tune "Aberystwyth". The voluntary at the end was by Stanford but the use of that hymn did make me think of the toccata on "Aberystwyth" by David Bednall (b. 1979, Choral Director of Clifton RC Cathedral, Bristol). For anybody who has never heard Bednall's toccata on "Aberystwyth" here it is played by Stephen Moore on the organ of Llandaff Cathedral. Dave

The electronic in the Gloucester broadcast sounds much better. I guess it might depend on what power the organist has and needs. The word "stop" is apt, in that you can choose not to use noises which are poor if you've got enough that isn't. If that Sep Makin wasn't loud enough without pulling nasty mixtures and possibly throwing it all through superoctave couplers then that might be it. If they could turn up a volume knob and play louder at 8,4 it might have come across better.

Released this week: John Challender's transcription of The Planets recorded at Salisbury. Good quality audio equipment a must. The cathedral chorister's contribution to Neptune is magical.