Stay Another Day band Maps covered the song and gave it away as a free mp3 download online. In 2003 at Keele University Students' Union, Chesney Hawkes and his band performed an (intentionally farcical) punk rock version of "Stay Another Day" in response to East 17 cancelling their appearance later in the night. The song was not performed in full as the band could not stop laughing when they tried to perform it. In 2012 metal band THE HELL covered the song as a Christmas single and is offered as a free download on their bandcamp account. In 2013, Bastille included it in
One More Day (Stay with Me) be titled "Stay with Me" but was later changed to "One More Day (Stay with Me)" to avoid confusion with Sam Smith's song of the same name. Example has compared the composition to that of other 2014 UK dance songs such as Gorgon City's "Ready for Your Love" and Clean Bandit's "Rather Be". He said, "I went into the studio with Alex Smith who I made 'Watch the Sun Come Up' with back in 2009. Pianos as club hooks have worked well for me in the past so with this track I wanted to recapture some of that sunshine in