If an agency was prepared to take you they would probably have come looking for you, so I'm afraid it's doubtful that would be an option.

Agents don't generally get paid by their DJs, they take a percentage of the fee, or more often take a booking fee from the promoter which is kept seperate from the DJs fee altogether.

As has been said, if you want bookings (certainly anywhere but very close to home) you'll need a couple of releases under your belt. Otherwise nobody will know who the hell you are and won't be too pushed to see you (and certainly not pay for the privilege)

The only way I've ever really got gigs is to give them to myself, in otherwords run my own nights. Mind you don't start running your own nights just to push yourself (it's too self centred and ends up f*cking a night up instead of thinking what's best for the night), playing yourself is just a nice bonus. You can run a gig on surprisingly little money as well if you keep it small. Big gigs = big risk. If you do well, you do ok, but if you do bad, you do f*ckin awful, believe me. It can be quite stressful, but if it goes well just watching your night go off is more than enough reward. :)

Last but not least, get yourself some exposure by running free parties. They're great fun, you have alot more freedom to do what you want with regards to the party, the music, everything. And people are often alot more willing to attend a free party for those reasons... and also coz they're a bloody good larf

Good luck anyway!