Featured Artist of February 14, 2025
with the: "REALITY? (EP)"


Artist's Biography

One Week Later (OWL ) is the genre-bending, innovative duo Richard M Smith and Jane S Broughton. Rich composes, arranges and plays all the music for guitars and synths. Jane writes the melodies and lyrics and performs the vocals. Rich also does some backing vocals.

OWL has a variety of albums and EPs out on general release, including:- Revolving Door EP 2013, Songs From Mars 2016, Connected 2018, Things That Make No Sense EP 2018,The Art Of Owl, 2020, Eclectica 2022, REFLECT EP February 2023 and the latest release, REALITY? EP Feb 2025.

They are currently working on an acoustic project and will be back in the recording studio at the end of April 2025 to record their first acoustic single called MOMENTS!

OWL is influenced by such artists as Blondie, Future Islands, Fleetwood Mac and Chrissie Hynde, not to mention the topical success of “new acoustic artists”, such as Miles Smith, but remain totally original in writing, arranging and performing all their own material whilst pervading the art rock/art pop world. They constantly seek out and listen to new music and examine current trends to perfect their sound for the here and now but stay true to their creative roots. Their songs are essentially alternative pop/rock, art pop/rock, combining both traditional instruments and electronics.

OWL has featured on the radio show “BBC Introducing” and OWL is frequently played and supported by a variety of internet radio stations, including Radio Wigwam, Amazing Radio, Broadjam, Banks Radio, BuzBeats Radio, Only Rock Radio, Loneley Oak Radio and a couple of US stations, namely Good Music Radio and CBJ Radio.

Whilst OWL is at its core an eclectic electric duo, they are successfully crossing over into the acoustic genre too. “ We felt slightly excluded from smaller, more intimate settings, and we wanted to experiment with an exceptional acoustic/electro sound. We’re being our usual experimental selves, but we know we’re on the right track! Our passion and drive is on the electric side though, and this will never be taken over by ACOUSTIC OWL!!!

OWL’S philosophy? ALL genres of music are important! It’s vital to develop an enquiring curiosity into all current music trends, whilst appreciating the exceptional wealth of former musical influences, which will always play a significant role in shaping the here and now, and help artists understand how to move forward with their “sound and vision”.

“Music is self-defining and we will strive to ensure that our recent and tender but harrowing experiences reflect our sensitised sentiments. Life-changing happenings will always have the upper hand!”


About the Album

For both of us, the last two years have been emotionally catastrophic. For Richard in particular in 2023 and 2024, many months were spent on hospital visits before his dearly loved son passed away at only 34 years of age, due to a particularly aggressive cancer. Indeed, it’s devastating for any parent to have to lose a child and it is most certainly the most impossible thing to accept.

I had experienced family loss too with both my parents passing, although they had lived long and happy lives. It was an unexpected blow however to lose my younger brother to cancer following an operation which didn’t go to plan.
We’ve been on a melancholy and highly emotional journey ever since and we’ve had the desire to create new songs to try and placate our inner emotional turmoil. Nothing can however fill that enormous gap in your heart and soul, but maybe it helps just a little?

Creatively we’re always looking for new challenges and we’re ever eager to move forward musically with changes in genre, style and mood but we didn’t want our new songs to be emotional copies of how we were feeling. We simply wanted to focus on life and the challenges thrown up by circumstantial changes.

Featured Artist of June 7, 2023
with the song: Stuck In The Middle With You


Artist's Biography

We’re submitting a cover song! It’s nothing we’ve ever done before and we don’t think we’re likely to repeat this process. Everyone was constantly asking us to do a cover number, so we chose this Gerry Rafferty/ Stealers Wheel classic, STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU and tried our best to make it our own, with a little help from some musician friends of ours.

We have the wonderful Nick Pentelow ( Wizard , Elton John, Beach Boys ) on sax, The amazing Abby Brant ( The Move, Mumbo-Jumbo, Quill, Stevie Winwood) on keys. The affable Alan Caves ( sound engineer to Roy Wood, Quill, Bev Bevan UB40, amongst others ) on bass and we’ve also got the superb Sharon Gibbons and the magnificent Michelle Farmer on backing vocals.

Then there’s us of course, Namely One Week Later, with the brilliantly gorgeous and talented Richard Smith on guitars, Perky Dudley on drums and percussion and me, Jane Broughton on lead vocals.

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