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
Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" is a single released by British hard rock band The Darkness. The single was released on 15 December 2003, to fall in with the UK Christmas Number One Race, ultimately finishing runner-up. The track was later included on a "Christmas Edition" of their debut studio album, "Permission to Land", issued in some areas of Europe on 22 December 2003. The band re-recorded the song in December 2013. The song is a take on the usual structure of Christmas songs. It features the usual mention of festivities,