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I meant that instead of using software and its built in effects to record, if I actually had some hardware then I could make similar quality recordings on my tape recorder.
Nothing about my music, haha.

Everything on 8bc apart from the more recent upload of Nuke is a demo, as I previously said.
And I've never been told that the vocals don't fit at all - possibly that's your taste in music creeping in?

That track's only up on 8bc so I could send it to a promoter, and he said
"Hi
I really really like that. It reminds me a bit of the better end of Kid Carpet's stuff.
Copied to iPod.
Chris"
So yeah. I think that might be just your taste in music haha.

Anyway yeah, disregard 8bc recordings/read my post just above yours. Everything is just rough demos really - I prefer to record something and get feedback off other people first, rather than make a song and do fuck all with it.

If you want to hear some recordings that I actually regard as good, and should be releasing, PM me. Otherwise, disregard my 8bc stuff because it is almost all early demos (apart from the lo-fi stuff that is. But you can't judge lo-fi by how well it's recorded, hahah).

Thanks dude!
I consider most everything on my 8bc (and in fact, almost everything I've recorded thus far) to be demos. You may notice, however, that there's two versions of the track Nuke. Check out the most recent one - it's from a recording session I did where I didn't record onto my tape recorder, spent some time doing it, used compressors and gates and reverb etc etc etc.
I plan on hopefully doing a release from these sessions, as they're of actually like, releaseable quality haha. If you're interested I'll drop you a download link, but yea.

Part of the reason I do consider the tracks demos (other than the rough recording obviously) is that I almost constantly evolve my songs. Mostly drums actually, but I always find myself going back to songs after a month or so and spending an hour or two just making everything tighter, and generally better sounding. I think a fair amount of stuff has reached as far as it can - or as far as I want it to - go organically, so yeah.

I did find a local label, who do digital and physical releases, and promotion. They also have a page basically telling people to not submit demos, and then ask people to submit demos. So I'm slightly apprehensive at that, haha. May well send something though, see what happens. Hopefully me and my couple of chip buddies will find a suitable venue - I think we're busking on Saturday at a science fest thing as well (Goto80 played during it last year iirc).

Daaammnnn, that looks nice!

So tempted to do that now, haha.

My town itself is fairly small, but it serves as a suburb for a larger city, which has a fairly active music scene.

I honestly can't tell if a lot of these comments are telling me my music is shit or not. Some of them seriously seem to be.
My problem isn't that I've sent people my music or whatever you're meant to do, and they have refused to give me shows.

It's that I have no idea what the fuck I need to do to move my music out of my bedroom. My friends know I do it, and that is pretty much it, and overcoming that barrier so I can get to doing gigs and stuff is something I just don't know how to do.

Some of the advice here has been very good. But a lot of it has been pretty pointless. Telling me to get better at what I do is a bit stupid (especially if you've not heard my music, or have only heard the demos I have on my Bandcamp), because I could be ridiculously amazing at something but still have no idea how to talk to promoters or whatever and get gigs and recognition. A lot of you seem to be totally missing the point. I'm not saying my music is amazing, but when you're 17 years old and trying to play any gigs, it doesn't matter. I know shitty Snow Patrol and Kings of Leon acoustic cover acts who get gigs. When I've played, the positive response has been absolutely overwhelming - however, it's just gigs organised by people at school.

I just can't break out of that.

That's probably the last time I'm gonna reiterate what I mean, and if people keep just saying "MAKE GUD MUSIC CUZ IT'LL GET U GIGZ" then I'll just let the thread die.
Yes, obviously it's a contributing factor. But I have no idea who puts on gigs, how to get in touch with them, etc etc etc, which I think is a much larger factor here.

A couple friends and I are looking at venues to possibly put on a gig. But yeah.

Thanks for everybody who gave actual relevant advice. Also, I'm sorry this thread became to personal to me. I really meant it to be more general and far-reaching, but oh well.

My subscribers are for fingerboarding videos, not music. So I have a potential audience, but they aren't subbed to me to listen to my music.

Also, I only mentioned fame once, which was as a joke. I'm not talking about getting famous. I'm talking about getting a few more people to listen to my music, and getting any gigs, haha.

A couple mates and I are looking round some places to see if we can actually get anything anywhere. I'm friends with a promoter so hopefully he can spread the word, though admittedly he's been slightly useless in suggestions of local labels or anywhere that I can use as a springboard for my music.

That's all fine and well, but it's pointless to make music if nobody listens to it.

I was promised a support slot for Thomas Truax by a local promoter, but I think he forgot about it or something. It's worth noting that I only got offered that cause he runs a photography group I go to, and therefore knows me.

The YMCA stopped doing gigs, which is when the youth music scene here just kinda totally shut down.

U guiz got any tipzzzz for getting music out there online? I managed to get some listeners cause I covered a song by Johnny Foreigner, and they were kind enough to blog about it. But that's not much of a dedicated audience.
If anyone from a netlabel wants to hear, I could send them my release so far? haha

Actually, I just thought. A few shops near where I live ask for bands to contribute CDs and stuff for them to play. May have to burn a few and make a trip around~