I am building my own distortion pedal but every time I connect it to a 9V power source it does not seem to work?
For a start it appears that you have forgotten to cut the traces between the pins of the chip. That means that pins 1 and 8 are connected, 2 and 7, 3 and 6, 4 and 5. They shouldn't be.

Figure 1. A Vero tool is rotated by hand to remove copper around any hole thereby isolating the strips either side of that hole. This tool doesn't go right through the board as in Figure 1.
If you haven't got one of those then a 3 mm drill bit twisted in your fingers will do the job.
Next you shouldn't really be connecting all the wires directly on the bottom of the board. Keep components and wires on the top side and at the edges. That way you'll be able to inspect it more easily.

Figure 2. Rather neat circuits can be built on Veroboard if the components can be mounted perpendicularly to the direction of the copper tracks. Here there are no flying wires and all cross-connections are done with components or wire links. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Note that the links are all straight wires going across the direction of the strips. To get from one side of the chip to the other would take two links.