murs has performed "heart skips a beat" live, with and without rizzle kicks, numerous times, in the lead up to and after its release. he first performed the song with rizzle kicks on the weekend of release at v festival on 20 and 21 august 2011. he also performed the song with them at "children in need" on 18 november, and on that year's christmas day edition of "top of the pops". he also performed the song with them as the closing number on the two sold out nights of his arena tour at london's o2 arena on 4 and 5 february 2012. he performed the song with them again at the 2012 brit awards ceremony on 21 february, where the song was nominated for the "best british single" award, losing out to one direction's single "what makes you beautiful". here, the mix of the song for this performance incorporated a sample of deee-lite's song "groove is in the heart". this performance was made available to download on itunes the following day.