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``That's illegal. You can't fire people for exercising protected speech,'' said one of Jacien's attorneys, Michael Brodie. Conshohocken's lawyer, Joseph Santarone, said he had not seen the complaint, which was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He said he expected to receive it within several days. Council President Gerald McTamney said the charges - as well as similar ones lodged in the past - were meritless. ``I don't think there's anything to it,'' McTamney said yesterday. ``I don't know anything about [the suit] and I don't give a damn.'' Also named in the suit were Mayor Daniel McGinley and Council members Lucius Carter, Sandra Caterbone, Joseph Collins, James Mullen, Robert Storti and Vincent Totaro. The lawsuit says that McTamney fired Angelilli and that council members agreed to suspend Jacien after learning of his two-month-old relationship with Angelilli. The suit seeks punitive and other damages. An angry Jacien approached The Inquirer and other local newspapers that week to report what he said he believed were improprieties by council members. He said he had discovered several misdealings during his tenure as Conshohocken's first borough manager. Jacien was fired in November. Council members said he had mishandled borough accounts and contracts during his three-year tenure and had acted insubordinately. ``He got instructions not to talk to the press,'' said Brodie, Jacien's attorney. The lawsuit alleges that Borough Solicitor John DiPietro told Jacien, ``the more you talk, the more trouble you will be in.'' Reached yesterday, DiPietro said he had not seen the suit and had no comment. The suit says that in firing Jacien, officials violated his right to free speech and privacy. It also seeks damages for defamation, saying charges by McTamney in April that Jacien had conspired to tape-record the council president were false. Angelilli secretly recorded an argument she had with McTamney the day before she was fired. On the tape, McTamney says the couple were ``embarrassing the borough'' and asks Angelilli to leave or both would be terminated. She refused to quit. On April 2, McTamney filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County Court, charging that Jacien and Angelilli conspired with one of their attorneys, Joshua Rubinsky, to make the recording without McTamney's knowledge, which he contends was illegal. The couple - who left their respective spouses last year, filed for divorce and moved in together - have since broken up. She Wants Revenge and its flinty singer, Justin Warfield, were the longest of tooth (30-plus) where bands were concerned. This crowd respected its elders - ate it up - as Warfield came across sounding like Peter Murphy fronting a Joy Division cover band. That's a compliment. As SWR toyed with plucked bass lines and layered keyboards, its shadowy melodies were wearily romantic; an icy space where baritone Warfield spread his doomy sensual lyrics on tunes such as "Red Flags and Long Nights." It's a shame SWR's new songs, such as "What I Want," sounded like a parody of its best, with yappy vocals and four-on-the-floor rhythms replacing musk for duskiness. Even Dracula screwed up on occasion. There was nothing lacking in Be Your Own Pet's performance. Snotty, silly singer Jemina Pearl - spiked, pixieish hair, ankle-high athletic socks, shorts - and her crew had a formula. Play hard, fast, spry art-noise that combined the influence of aged punks the Damned and Buzzcocks and some 1960s girl-group melodies into one breakneck mishmash. Have boys in the band shout song titles such as "The Kelly Affair" and "Bummer Time" as their chorus, and you've got your own Pet. That may be an oversimplification, but that's the point. Brilliant. New York City's the Virgins and London's Switches opened for the main acts and managed - through lousy-sound problems - to make faceless dance-punk and Strokes-like lameness smilingly sweet.