Biography:

‘One Week of Days’ are husband and wife duo Bob and Jan Murphy. They are based in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Bob and Jan are both prolific songwriters and they have worked together on various musical projects, most notably ‘Kaydee’ (1994-1997)

Bob and Jan met in 1988 when they were in a school musical together. It wasn’t long however before they ended up performing in the same group in their home town, Kilkenny. One group followed another until the group they were in at the time ‘Kaydee’ ended up signing a recording contract with EMI records in 1994.

They finished up with ‘Kaydee’ in 1997 and Bob went on to record some solo material while Jan took a break from writing and recording.

In April 2000 they got married and later the same year they decided to work together again on a new project “One Week of Days”, a play on “One Week of Years” from the book of Daniel.

“One Week of Days” is be primarily focused around recording and would features the singing and songwriting of both; with Bob playing the majority of the instruments on their recordings.

In early 2002 One Week of Days released their first album … ‘Who you really Are’ was recorded in their home studio in Kilkenny city. The album took 18 months to complete and contains 11 tracks. Songwriting provides a dominant element and the music is rock based with strong flavours of folk, roots, electronica and jazz. The title track was written by Jan and portrays a God full of grace and love, distinct from many modern notions about the God of the Bible.

“… a shining reviving exuberant God in my heart,

I’ll tell everybody who you really are.”

Between 2003 and 2004 a band was organised to gig the new material and also recorded some new versions of tracks from “Who You Really Are”.

Since then some singles have been released: Bad History in September 2008, You Light Up My Day in December 2009 and Shepherd King in May 2010, A Word To Satisfy June 2014