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Slay Duggee is a British English heavy metal band for young children. [1] They play 'My First Metal Gig' concerts to give young children their first experience of live heavy metal music.

History

The name of Slay Duggee is a pun on the British children's series, Hey Duggee.

Slay Duggee formed in January 2018 to release a heavy metal version of "The Stick Song" from "The Stick Badge" episode of Hey Duggee . The Slay Duggee version was released within 48 hours of the original being broadcast, and was featured on UK radio shortly afterwards. [2] DJ Steve Lamacq, of BBC Radio 6 Music, has described them as "the Lords of Toddler Metal". [3]

In 2018, Slay Duggee collaborated with guitarist James Monteith from Tesseract, and singer Nicky “Scorpion” Calonne from Nekrogoblikon, on a cover version of "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie . [4] In the same year, Slay Duggee released a Christmas single "Walking in the Air" with singer Daniel Tompkins from Tesseract. [5] In July 2018, the band completed a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the album Kids Love Metal. [6]

Slay Duggee released their debut album Kids Love Metal in 2018. [7] The album was partially funded by selling wooden sticks on Kickstarter. [8]

Slay Duggee released their second album My First Metal Album in 2019. Featuring heavy metal cover versions of songs such as "Paw Patrol", "PJ Masks", "You've Got A Friend In Me", "Sleeping Bunnies", "Johny Johny (Yes Papa)" and "Daddy Finger".

In 2020, to replace a fundraiser concert cancelled due to COVID19, the band filled Hot Box Live, Chelmsford, UK, with 35,000 ball crawl balls [9] to play a special livestream concert to an audience of one, Angus Grocott, a young quadrelegic fan.

Slay Duggee released their third album Chinese Dogmocracy in 2022. [10] Featuring heavy metal cover versions of songs such as "Spongebob Squarepants (featuring Rachel Aspe from Cage Fight)", "Bluey", "There's A Party In My Tummy", "Toothbrushing Song", "Round and Round The Garden (featuring Princess Beast from Animal Schoolbus)" and a song "Surfin'" written by, and featuring 4-year-old fan Reuben.

Steve Lamacq had Slay Duggee live in session on his BBC Radio 6 Music radio show in August 2019. [11] Steve performed guest duck quacks on the song "Sarah & Duck".

In August 2019, their first live gig 'My First Metal Gig' at Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes sold out within two hours. [12]

Slay Duggee played a farewell concert [13] at Colchester Arts Centre in November 2022.

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