"Vessel" made its live debut at the Edmonton, Alberta show on [[2008/07/28 Edmonton, AB|July 28th, 2008]]. A picture of its performance was posted on [[nin.com]]'s blog.
Throughout the [[Lights in the Sky Tour]], "Vessel" was regularly played before the "Ghosts" section of the setlist, played alongside (or replaced with) "[[Me, I'm Not]]", "[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]", or "[[The Great Destroyer]]".
"Vessel" has only been played live twice since 2008, both within two weeks of each other in 2014 - in Tokyo, Japan on [[2014/02/26 Tokyo, Japan|February 26]] and in Adelaide, Australia, on [[2014/03/13 Adelaide, Australia|March 13]].