Our interview with Paul Pacifico is on hold.

Cake has momentarily rendered both AIM’s CEO and Music Week unable to speak. Fortunately, there’s tea on hand, too, so we’re quickly back to the business of Pacifico’s first big Music Week interview since replacing Alison Wenham at AIM in September 2016.

Pacifico describes his initial 12 months as “a learning, planning year,” and touts 2018 as his “action year”.

AIM is now 19 years old, and Pacifico describes it is “a ...