A remote performance of "Heard 'Em Say" taped in Los Angeles was broadcast on a video screen in Foxborough, Massachusetts for an audience of over 40,000 fans during a pre-game concert held on September 3, 2005 at Gillette Stadium. After the funk rock band Maroon 5 played their 2002 single "Harder to Breathe," West performed his song atop a red-white-and-blue stage. Accompanied by a seventeen-piece, all-female string orchestra, West performed "Heard 'Em Say" live for an exclusive concert held at Abbey Road Studios in London, England on September 21. The performance was recorded and later released on a live album titled "Late Orchestration" (2006). On October 1, West appeared with Adam Levine as a musical guest on the season premiere of "Saturday Night Live" where they performed the song together backed by a live orchestra. For the premiere of the song, West wore a brown leather jacket and white-framed sunglasses, reminiscent of an outfit he had worn at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards a few months prior. West performed the song at Santa Monica High School on December 5 for a concert promoting higher education sponsored by his charity foundation. He included "Heard 'Em Say" within the setlist of his "Touch the Sky Tour" that took place in late 2005. During one of its stops in Universal City, California, Adam Levine was able to join West onstage to sing his portion of the song.