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lightligh aircraft. That’s not what is going to bbe on your headstone or what your childrench­il will be proud of.

“YYou have to concentrat­e on your legacylega and when you get to the second half of your life that’s what’s important.

“I had my mid-life crisis in my 20s.20s All my fast cars and loose women happenedha­p in my 20s.

“Until I was 35, my life was a Club 1830 holiday or a very long stag do withoutwit the looming spectre of marriage.ma

“Unfortunat­ely, my twilight years arear going to stretch a lot longer than usual.us I’ll be doing a lot of sitting downdow and wearing tweed.”

DespiteD being vegan, there is one Scottish dish Justin misses – the lasagne at Glasgow’s legendary venue King Tut’s.

“We’ve done King Tut’s so many times,” he said. “I love that place and at the time I was eating meat.

“They did a lasagne which is fairly legendary and instead of bechamel, that posh sauce, they used pure cheese.

“It was really intense. I had to really work hard to shift the block of cheese and meat residing in my stomach but it gave me the power to rock.” Justin added: “I’ve been vegan for nearly three

years. I actually really enjoy vegan food. You feel different when you’ve eaten it. Plus my wife is vegan and I am basically copying her.

“It makes it slightly easier not to do more than one meal when I’m cooking – which I do because I’m a modern human.

“The animals and all that are very important to my wife and I feel that way too, but she is very hardcore and watches all those documentar­ies that show animals being mistreated. “I don’t have the stomach for that. “Being vegan is a sustainabl­e way to live. Plants are everywhere. Vegetables have enough protein.

“There’s no need to kill things so it is quite easy really.

“I didn’t eat that much dairy before with the exception of the King Tut’s lasagne. That venue has probably sustained a small dairy farm over the years.

“Being 40 now, I feel I’m putting as much in as I used to.

“Maybe it’s practice and maybe it’s my diet but I just feel better and more inclined to rock.”

The band, who shot to fame with their debut album Permission To Land, as well as their hit singles, release their fourth album, Last Of Our Kind, on June 1.

Some of the new songs can be heard

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