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 in 2003, as the group played extensively throughout the Sacramento area, supporting the EP. Allen left the band in 2004. Adopting the new name, and once again a three-piece, the band recorded a new EP, featuring the tracks "Blind," "Overground," and "Days of Fire." With the addition of guitarist Brian Holzgang in 2005, the band began touring throughout Northern California, opening for such acts as Taylor Hawkins and Frank Hannon. The band's single, "Blind" was featured, then put into rotation on KWOD in late 2005, while another, "Overground," was chosen by Mark Gilmore for inclusion on KRXQ 98 Rock's "Sacramento