Anne McCue doesn’t have just one passion — she has three.

Although she may be pursuing music more than she is her other two passions — film and writing — at the moment, it doesn’t mean she’s put the others to rest.

The Australian-born McCue graduated from the Sydney University of Technology with a degree in Film Production and Film Studies. She soon realized, however, the business wasn’t for her.

“I wanted to be a filmmaker,” McCue says. “I still do actually. I studied film, but I realized I didn’t want to work in the film business as a technician or anything. I’d rather be a writer/director type, so I sort of stepped back from it for a while.”

That step back took her to another passion.

“I finished my degree, then I took a year trying to be a writer,” she says.

Because McCue felt isolated in that field of work, she traded in her typewriter for a guitar.

“I felt what I’d really like to do is join a rock ‘n’ roll band,” she says. “I looked in the paper and there was an ad in there, [so] I answered it and joined the band. I’ve been playing ever since. It kind of took over my whole life.”

McCue’s latest album, “Roll,” which is also her first project to be officially released in the United States, is something she says she is extremely proud of.

“It’s a good feeling to actually like something you’ve done,” she says.

During the making of the album, McCue says her biggest concern was trying to keep the album stripped of overproduction.

“I wanted it to be simple in its arrangements,” she says. “I didn’t want it to get too complex or studio-phonic.”

McCue’s musical pursuits have taken her from a yearlong gig in Vietnam to a 1998 and 1999 spot at Lilith Fair with her former band, Eden aka. Along the way, she has had the opportunity to play with many musicians whom she greatly admires. Out of all, McCue sees Lucinda Williams as her role model.

“I think the thing about her is her integrity,” she says. “She doesn’t know how to compromise and that’s a good lesson.”

McCue draws her musical taste from both past and present. She says overall that “Roll” has its roots in rock ‘n’ roll.

“It’s not a corporate rock album [which is] sort of what rock means now days,” she says. “It’s more like in a sense Nirvana, The White Stripes, Neil Young, Nick Cave or PJ Harvey. It’s a rock album.”

Who: Anne McCue

Where: M- Shop, Memorial Union

When: 9 p.m. Friday

Cost: $7 students, $9 public