As we meet, Music Week suggests to Music Managers Forum chief executive Annabella Coldrick that some people must have thought she was mad to leave the safe environment of the Design Council for the unpredictable world of overseeing the country’s rock’n’roll managers, at a time when the music biz was in turmoil.

We’re not being entirely serious, of course, but Coldrick gives us a straight answer.

“That’s only if you look at the recorded music perspective,” she says. “If you ...