It’s been a bumper weekend for music fans at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. You’ll have to excuse the oxymoron. Given, the two are entirely different disciplines; one centres as heavily on melody as it does on the written word, and the other strives to arrange its lexemes in such a way that they take on their own melodic shape. Contingent to both,  however, is the sense of narrative that promoter Michael Chugg and performer Brian Cadd are exceptionally well versed in. The pair spoke on a panel in the Weekend Australian tent this Sunday afternoon as a part of the festival’s continuing In Conversation series. Chugg, the stocky rock manager fluent in the kind of French that would shock your grandmother into an early grave, and Cadd, the bearded (and slightly more mannerly) balladeer, shared stories from their interlocking pasts while promoting their respective autobiographies (released last year). Chugg’s book, Hey You In The Black T-Shirt, draws its title from a now infamous Guns and Roses concert in Melbourne in 1993. “The thing sold …