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
Thunder (band) short acoustic set and spoke with McIver live. The follow-up to "Wonder Days" was announced in December to be "Rip It Up", which would be released the following February and supported by a UK tour starting in March. The album reached number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, marking the highest position achieved by the band since "Laughing on Judgement Day" reached number 2 in 1992. Thunder performed their first shows ever in Australia shortly after the album's release, before returning to Europe in April for a string of dates. On 1 December 2017 the band released the single "Christmas