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
Christmas in a Day Christmas in a Day Christmas In A Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on Christmas Day (25 December 2012). Scott Free Films and Sainsbury's produced the film. The film is 90 minutes long and includes shots from hundreds of perspectives, each submitted directly to production rather than through YouTube as Macdonald's previous 'In A Day' film had been. The film was premiered at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) in London on 29 November 2013 before the release on YouTube. The