Slay Duggee is an English heavy metal band for children. They play 'My First Metal Gig' concerts to give kids their first experience of live heavy metal music.
History
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. DJ
Steve Lamacq, of
BBC Radio 6 Music, has described them as "the Lords of Toddler Metal".
In 2018, Slay Duggee collaborated with guitarist James Monteith from
Tesseract, and singer Nicky “Scorpion” Calonne from
Nekrogoblikon
Nekrogoblikon is an American melodic death metal band based in Los Angeles, California. The group was formed in 2006, by Tim Lyakhovetskiy and Nicky Calonne. The band has released five full-length albums, ''Goblin Island'', ''Stench'', ''Heavy Me ...
, on a cover version of "
Everything Is Awesome
"Everything Is Awesome" (stylized as "Everything Is AWESOME!!!") is a song by Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, featuring American comedy trio the Lonely Island. As the theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film ''The Lego Movie'', ...
" from ''
The Lego Movie''. In the same year, Slay Duggee released a Christmas single "
Walking in the Air
"Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film ''The Snowman'' based on Raymond Briggs's 1978 children's book of the same name. The song forms the centrepiece of ''The Snowman'', which has become a seasonal fav ...
" with singer Daniel Tompkins from Tesseract. In July 2018, the band completed a successful
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, ...
campaign to fund the album ''Kids Love Metal''.
Slay Duggee released their debut album ''Kids Love Metal'' in 2018. The album was partially funded by selling wooden sticks on Kickstarter.
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 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. 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. 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.
Slay Duggee played a farewell concert
at Colchester Arts Centre in November 2022.
References
{{UK-band-stub
2018 establishments in the United Kingdom
British heavy metal musical groups
British children's musical groups