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"These BIS standards are really about cleaning up the market. We've had too many low-quality products flooding in, and consumers deserve better," says Sandeep Sharma a journalist and footwear industry expert.

“This lexicon gives a humorous and precise overview of the most important words and phrases of politically correct newspeak,” the back cover of Klaus Rainer Röhl’s Politisch Korrekt von A bis Z from 1995 promises.

It wasn’t long before Bis reactivated though, firstly for a string of shows in 2009 and then again in 2014.

She jokes that although she falls over sometimes “on a stage I’ve got a keyboard to hold onto” but, much like Bis in general, she carries on despite difficulties.

When Bis first formed they had one goal in mind.