Festival-goers making their way to this year's RockNess music event are to receive promotional bags as part of a special promotion.

Today the organisers of the multi-award-winning Scottish festival revealed the first wave of acts for the event and announced information about the inaugural RockNess Express, a train ride for music fans that will use promotional items.

Biffy Clyro, Mumford & Sons and singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran are to appear at this summer's festival, which is held beside Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

But we're more interested in RockNess – a specially-chartered train that will depart from London Euston, picking up festival-goers at Birmingham, Derby, York and Newcastle, before delivering them to the final festival.

Organisers are going the whole hog on the train journey, offering revellers music, special guests, food and drink, games and promotional bags.

RockNess director Jim King said: "I'm so happy with the list of acts we're announcing today that I now just can't wait for the first tent peg in the ground and for the party to start."

Posted by Robin McCrink