Stay Another Day to promote its parent single. Girls Aloud gave the song a "romantic slant," which surprised East 17's Mortimer since it is about his brother's suicide. Mortimer said, "I found it really odd they were singing a song about my dead brother. It should've been left alone for a few years," adding that he did like Girls Aloud. Colin Paterson of "The Guardian" remarked on the unoriginality of Girls Aloud's cover: "A group formed on a TV show by a phone poll and then doing a cover of a former Christmas No 1. Life seldom gets less imaginative." In 2007 the
Another Single Day recorded a few singles before drawing attention from Marco Collins at KWOD 106.5 in Sacramento. Collins put the acoustic single "Wait" on the airwaves, followed by the heavier track, "Perfect." Changing the name to Another Single Day, The three then recorded a self-titled, 5-song EP in 2004, under independent label Quasitone Records, with record producer Brian Poole at Sketchpad Recording Studios in Sacramento. Poole would work with the band throughout their career. The re-recorded "Perfect," and the single "Rearranged" made their way onto both KWOD 106.5 FM, and KRXQ 98.5 98 Rock in Sacramento. Guitarist Chris Allen joined the band